Six or seven billion years ago, most stars formed in super star clusters. That type of star formation has largely died out ...

Astronomers have made new discoveries about young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the James Webb ...

A surprising discovery has been made in the Milky Way, a star cluster called Palomar 5 is home to more than 100 stellar-mass black holes. This finding was published in Nature Astronomy. Palomar 5 is a ...

Thousands upon thousands of stars illuminate this breathtaking image of star cluster Liller 1, imaged with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. Some of our galaxy’s most massive, luminous stars burn 8,000 ...

Rare blue lurker star found in the M67 open star cluster Unusual rotation speed linked to stellar mergers in a triple system Hubble detects white dwarf companion with ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows rich detail in a pair of star clusters 166,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), in the southern constellation Doradus. This striking Hubble ...

Plus: Saturn’s moon Iapetus is visible, our Moon passes the bright star Spica, and Mars skims south of Pollux in Gemini in ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

Hubble beholds brilliant blue star cluster: NGC 2031 contains a sizable population of Cepheid variable stars (at least 14), which are stars that brighten and dim periodically. The stellar grouping ...