New James Webb Space Telescope observations of a star cluster called NGC 346 are shedding light on how, when and where ...

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

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details ...

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 ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Planets are formed when dust and rock in a disk around a young star collide and combine to form ever larger bodies. This ...

A trio of astronomers from the University of Tokyo and Niigata University have found what they describe as "peculiar embedded ...

with dust clouds and ionised gas revealing unique stellar birth conditions. Meanwhile, NGC 2264 featur... The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured detailed images of the spiral galaxy NGC ...

“We’ve found that many more are lurking in plain sight – hiding behind dust and gas rendering ... and the X-ray space telescope NuSTAR to analyse infrared emissions from clouds surrounding ...