As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Beauty Of Tarantula Nebula This nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most active star-forming regions, filled ...

Caldwell 71, or NGC 2477, is an open star cluster. Open clusters are loosely bound collections of stars. It is located roughly 4,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis.

A new study has unveiled new insights into the effects of massive stars on nearby molecular gas and star formation in the W4 ...

The Universe is full of dust, and a striking new image from the Hubble Space Telescope highlights just how important it is.

A nearby planetary system is seen in detail in our first look at an asteroid belt outside our solar system in infrared light ...