Using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT), astronomers have detected a new giant molecular cloud in the Milky Way galaxy. The ...

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown giant molecular cloud (GMC) at the midpoint of the Galactic Bar Dust Lanes ...

A team of researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to uncover new details about SIMP 0136, a free-floating planet in ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), is unlike most of the galaxy. Almost 80 percent of its dense gas is held there, ...

This type of cluster typically contains a few dozen to a few thousand relatively young stars from the same giant molecular cloud. In this case, NGC 460 is believed to have formed following a ...

This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

Open clusters (OCs), formed from the same giant molecular cloud, are groups of stars loosely gravitationally bound to each other. So far, more than 1,000 of them have been discovered in the Milky ...

What causes comets from the Oort Cloud? It is believed that gravitational interactions with other stars and giant molecular clouds are responsible for occasionally knocking knocking icy bodies out ...

The ghostly ring Kýklos (from the Greek κύκλος, circle or ring) and the object WR16 both show the environment of rare and ...

VC funding into AI tools for healthcare was projected to hit $11 billion last year -- a headline figure that speaks to the ...