H3+, known as "the molecule that made the universe," plays a crucial role in interstellar chemistry and the birth of stars.

SpaceX is set for another Starlink launch on Friday morning from the Space Coast. A Falcon 9 carrying 23 of the internet satellites is set to lift off at 10:19 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

Elon Musk went straight to the slurs after being called out yet again for saying that astronauts have been stranded on the ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

New image from the Hubble Space Telescope peers into a dusty region of space - home to some of the largest stars know to man.

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Doradus 30, also known as 30 Doradus or the Tarantula Nebula, is a massive star-forming region located in the Large ...

A nebula that neighbors the Milky Way galaxy happens to be a powerhouse of forging stars, "a bouquet of thousands of stars in ...