A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

Hubble’s image of the Large Magellanic Cloud reveals a cotton candy-like cloudscape using light our eyes can’t see, like ultraviolet and infrared. The result is both beautiful and informative. NASA ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important ...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory view of galaxy group NGC 4839 has revealed that it is "plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an extraordinary tail of superheated gas," according to ...

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the Milky Way called the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ). This region holds clues ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed image of Messier 63. It is also known as the Sunflower Galaxy. The galaxy is ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way's galactic neighbors, a ...

Astronomers have been identifying protoplanetary disks for many decades—structures that evolve into solar systems like our ...