The Top 100 Hubble Pictures Series. Today we are travelling to the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic ...

The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured imagery of young star system HH 1177 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESO ...

Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf—the dense remnant of a dead star—continually siphons stellar material from a nearby companion star. As the outer atmosphere of the ...

Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way and is located around 160,000 light years away from our solar system. This ...

Nova explosions occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf — the dense remnant of a dead star — continually siphons stellar material ...

Astronomy lovers in America will be treated to a great show in this month. In the early morning of March 14, a total lunar ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." ...

From supermassive black holes to vibrant star clusters and nebulae, check out these 7 mesmerizing cosmic images captured by ...

A celestial body is any natural object outside Earth's atmosphere. This includes stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dwarf planets and meteoroids.

Scientists estimate that less than 1 kilogram of dark matter exists in a volume equivalent to Earth’s size. Despite dark ...

Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station, uses his camera to capture stunning images of ...