The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

An artist’s concept of the famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star,” previously nicknamed the “Death Star.” New research ...

The vastness of space is filled with mysteries waiting to be unraveled. Among the many enigmatic elements of the cosmos space ...

Previous efforts to map the galaxy's dust were challenged by limited data, but the Gaia mission has provided a treasure trove ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope's latest image has all the things: jets, a swooshy tail, a hidden secret and tiny stellar dust grains. Webb's February Picture of the Month showcases the powerful ...

"Even today, our understanding of star formation is still developing; comprehending how stars formed in the earlier universe is even more challenging." ...

A giant stellar nursery shows off its newborn stars ... Sign up for Mashable's weekly Light Speed newsletter. Disks of gas and dust that may give rise to new stars, small star clusters, and ...

akin to a "stellar egg" which draws in more gas and dust from the wider molecular cloud until an infant star "hatches." But was this the case billions of years ago? "We can't go back in time to ...