A blast of X-rays was seen coming from within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured the ​​colorful, wispy clouds near the Tarantula Nebula, one of the most luminous and ...

A long-lost cosmic explosion, buried within two decades of NASA's Chandra X-ray data, has finally been uncovered by astronomers using artificial intelligence. This incredibly powerful and fleeting ...

A red supergiant star appears to have changed in just a few years – an astronomical blink of an eye – which suggests it may ...

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...

New evidence suggests that conditions in the early universe may have shaped star formation in surprising ways.

Dominant cosmological theories posit that stars are formed in molecular clouds that are sufficiently large and dense that it ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.