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 ...

New images from the JWST are about as close as we've ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

VISION seeks to map all of the star-forming clouds within 1,600 light-years of Earth that are visible from the Southern Hemisphere. You can explore the image in an interactive app on the VISION ...

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.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has once again delivered a visually stunning look into the heart of the universe, ...

These stars release high-energy radiation, which causes the gas clouds to shine in a spectacular way. The new images are the result of observations made a few years ago by Thomas Stanke ...

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

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 ...

The JWST will help scientists better understand the molecules present in planetary nebulae -- the clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. While the images released this week are ...

Exactly 1,001 stars are scattered throughout the filaments of dust in this image. (Yes, astronomers actually counted them.) Most of them are still shrouded in the dust clouds from which they ...

Dominant cosmological theories posit that stars are formed in molecular clouds that are sufficiently ... enough to capture higher-resolution images of the SMC. “Our study was motivated by ...

"When you see these dark stars or clouds in radio wavelength images, it tells you something very interesting," Zadeh said. "We immediately know there is a cold gas cloud or dusty star mixing with ...