For years, Spitzer peered through dusty clouds at untold stars and galaxies ... targets and churned out more than 36 million raw images as part of the $1.4 billion mission. An estimated 4,000 ...

NGC 685, a smaller cousin of our Milky Way, dazzles with youthful energy as newborn stars light up its spiral arms.

And they are stunning. The images offer a glimpse of Cassiopeia A, the famous remnant of a supernova, or exploding star. Glowing purple gas clouds can be seen around the remains of the star.

This spectacular new image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, showcases the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the biggest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It is visible only from the Southern ...

Cometary globules are a hard-to-detect subclass of so-called Bok globules, which are isolated and dense clouds of gas and ... captures record-breaking image of a dead star's scattered remains ...

But it's the result of murky clouds of dust that block starlight from farther away. In a new image from the European Space Observatory (ESO), dense star-making regions produce haunting shadows in ...

A far infrared image of the Small ... The song “Little Fluffy Clouds” was a breakout hit during the dawn of techno music. Turns out, it may also be an apt description of stellar nurseries — the ...

The glowing region in this new image from the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope is a reflection nebula known as IC 2631. These objects are clouds of cosmic ... by the star HD 97300, one of the youngest ...

RCW 106 itself is the red cloud above centre in this new image, although much of this huge H II region is hidden by dust and it is much more extensive than the visible part. Many other unrelated ...

NASA has released stunning new footage of clouds drifting across the Martian ... House to restore Associated Press’s access Pakistani star’s Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right ...

Starburst A new and more accurate way of predicting star birth ... of gas in each cloud. However, these estimates are based on theoretical 3D models of what are actually 2D images of clouds.