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

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

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

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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 ...

“The data indicates that the youngest stars form in filaments of gas,” Loeb said. “Subsequently the gas cools and fragments ...

Stars form in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs), vast clouds of mostly hydrogen that can span tens of light years. These stellar ...

Stars are born in dense molecular clouds, but did they always form this way? Recent research suggests that in the early ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

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

Also called molecular clouds, they can be massive, spanning hundreds of light-years and forming thousands of stars.