University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant ...

The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of ...

The dark nebula is part of the Circinus West molecular cloud, which stretches for 180 light-years, containing a mass 250,000 ...

The find shines light on how galaxies begin to turn gas and dust "into stars and planets," said astrophysicist Blakesley ...

A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible ...

Pluto was discovered in 1930 in Arizona, but in 2006 scientists decided to cut Pluto from the planetary line up. Here is why ...

Discovered in 1930, Pluto was long considered our Solar System's ninth planet, but was unseated in 2006 after the discovery ...

The National Science Foundation's Dark Energy Camera reveals a stunning glimpse into the 'dark nebula' known as the Circinus ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captures asteroid Donaldjohanson, marking a new step in its mission to explore the solar system’s ...