A group of about 1,000 stars are coming to Nevada skies this month. See the details on that and the other astronomical events ...

This composite image was weeks in the making, as Horálek’s two "crossings" happened months apart. Mars traced its path ...

Star clusters are collections of thousands to millions of stars bound together by gravity — and many can be observed in the night sky with binoculars or a small telescope. One notable example is ω ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have made the first direct observation of star clusters colliding and merging at the hearts of dwarf galaxies. The discovery could help scientists settle ...

An international team of astronomers reported evidence for the formation of mysterious “super star clusters” Jan. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. These ...

The sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. The solar ...

The Cosmic Gems arc as observed by the JWST. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Bradley (STScI), A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the Cosmic Spring collaboration. The history of how stars and ...

The history of how stars and galaxies came to be and evolved into the present day remains among the most challenging astrophysical questions to solve yet, but new research brings us closer to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Orion Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades open clusters highlighted by large yellow circles. | Credit ...