Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

Nearly 400 years ago, Galileo looked at the Pleiades star cluster through his telescope and noticed that the seven or so ...

Stargazers in the U.S. will find the slender form of the crescent moon roughly 20 degrees above the western horizon right at ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...