A sparkling stellar nursery appears reminiscent of the early universe in new images from the Hubble Space Telescope.The ...

The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced the most detailed image yet of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble previously ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

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The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that resembles the movie monster Godzilla. The image was captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

He calculated that the distance was about 800,000 light years -- more than eight times the distance to the furthest stars in the Milky Way! This proved that the "nebula" were actually separate ...

From the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' to the vivid colours of the Lagoon Nebula, check out these 7 astonishing photos of ...