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

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

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.

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

Though NGC 7456 looks like a modest spiral galaxy, new Hubble and XMM-Newton observations reveal a bustling system with ...

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

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 ...

Recently, the field of astronomy has made a remarkable discovery—scientists have observed a vast ionized gas cloud in the ...

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

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 ...

Today, I want to share with everyone a super shocking astronomical discovery! Scientists have found a cloud of ionized gas in ...

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