“Not every experience should be pleasurable. Sometimes we need friction, safety warnings,” Turner said. Those disclosures ...

A Christmas Tree-shaped star cluster inside NGC 2264 reveals active star formation 2,700 light-years from Earth.

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars ...

The NGC 2264 is a vast stellar complex located in the Monoceros constellation, about 2,600 light-years away. It includes two ...

Using the Two-meter Twin Telescope (TTT3), Spanish astronomers have conducted deep optical imaging of an isolated dwarf galaxy known as NGC 6789. Results of the new observations, presented November 10 ...

About 12 million light years away lies an impossible galaxy. Over the last 600 million years, its core has been forming new stars – but there is no apparent source for the fuel that has fed that star ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al Sudani leads a session of the Council of Ministers. (Iraqi Prime Minister’s Media Office on X) Now that voters have cast their ballots in Iraq’s 2025 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. What is the bright white star in the east right now?

Astronomers using data from ESA's Euclid and Herschel space telescopes have confirmed that star formation has already peaked in the cosmos, and that the universe is bound to get steadily 'colder and ...

A team of astrophysicists has unveiled how colossal stars thousands of times more massive than the Sun shaped the earliest star clusters and galaxies. These short-lived giants not only forged the ...

In a groundbreaking observation, the James Webb Space Telescope captured unprecedented detail within the Small Magellanic Cloud. The images revealed hundreds of young stars forming in metal-poor ...