Although this spiral galaxy appears unremarkable from afar, NGC 7456 is bursting with newborn stars and glowing gas, ...

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly ...

Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

Astronomers have been watching this galaxy pair, NGC 4532 and DDO 137, for years and discovered a "gas bridge" over 185,000 light years long.

NGC 2775, a galaxy 67 million light-years away, is puzzling astronomers with its mix of traits. The Hubble Space Telescope has released a new Picture of the Week, and this time the spotlight is on a ...

Take a tour of the Hydra I galaxy cluster. A galaxy in the region, NGC 3312, is "losing cold gas as it moves through the hot ...

The star-forming region called Sagittarius B2 contains half of the galactic center's stars, yet only 10% of the gas.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recently captured a stunning image of a puzzling galaxy which is hard to fit in any ...

This ghostly galaxy was first observed in 1780 by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain, who worked with renowned comet hunter ...

New radio astronomy results reveal how galaxies exchange gas with the intergalactic medium – the raw material for stars and ...