These illuminated dust pockets help astronomers understand how stars interact with their surroundings, especially how dust ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Stunning NASA Deep Space Images ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) picture of the month for February 2025 is showing off the power of planet formation.

Hubble has previously imaged the same nebula, with an image released in 2023 and another shared in 2020. You might also recognize the name of this nebula as it was made world famous when the James ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

NGC 602, located approximately 200,000 light-years from Earth, showcases active star formation, with dust clouds and ionised gas revealing unique stellar birth conditions. Meanwhile, NGC 2264 ...