Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...

In the most extensive ultraviolet study of blue stragglers ever performed, an international research team used NASA's and ESA ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures visible and infrared images of protoplanetary disks, showing gas and dust structures ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

Astronomers have used a new method to confirm a discrepancy between the expansion rate of the early and nearby universe. The ...

The observatory will combine tech from NASA's most powerful space telescopes.

In the next few years, we will see some incredible observatories comie online. The Vera Rubin Observatory's science campaign ...

A team of scientists has estimated that the Hubble Space Telescope could reenter Earth’s atmosphere and meet its fiery demise ...

Optical proof of a tiny companion orbiting supergiant star Betelgeuse is hard to come by. Hubble just spotted new evidence.

NASA’s Hubble telescope has captured rare images of newborn stars hidden inside dusty cosmic clouds, revealing how massive ...