The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

"What makes Zhúlóng stand out is just how much it resembles the Milky Way—both in shape, size and stellar mass," said the ...

to explore supernova wreckage in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The supernova remnant in question is MC SNR J0519–6902, first discovered in 1981.

Researchers interrogated the 'sounds' of a cluster of stars within the Milky Way, uncovering a new technique ... they can offer insights into our solar system's past and formation, as well as ...

Scientists have discovered an extremely rare pair of stars only around 150 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy that will ... being so close to our solar system, the explosion will not be ...

Hubble’s 35-year journey showcases humanity’s boldest space achievements, capturing everything from new stars forming to ...

This discovery, published today in Nature Astronomy, has not only found such a system for the first time, but has found a compact white dwarf pair right on our doorstep in the Milky Way.

Our Milky Way alone contains more than 100 billion ... In the Sun's case, this will mean the fiery end of all the inner planets of our Solar System, which might also include the Earth.

Located a mere 160 light-years from Earth within our Milky Way galaxy, these stellar remnants ... 25 times closer to each other than our solar system's innermost planet Mercury is to the sun ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

This cluster is roughly 21,000 light-years from us, near the edge of the Milky Way galaxy, and contains approximately a ... It consists, among other things, of the Arecibo telescope, our solar system, ...