A new 527-megapixel image captures two open star clusters, NGC 456 and NGC 460, orbiting our Milky Way galaxy. The image uses ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant ...

Some of these open clusters are pretty famous, such as the Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters. This is ...

Hubble captures forgotten globular cluster ESO 591-12 in rare detail ESO 591-12 sparkles with red and blue stars of varying ...

Figuring out the ages of stars is fundamental to understanding many areas of astronomy—yet, it remains a challenge since ...

Early risers are in for a celestial treat on July 5, when Venus appears as a bright 'morning star' alongside the magnificent ...

Seven strangely-behaving stars in the Milky Way's Omega Centauri cluster may be under the influence of an extremely rare type of black hole, new research suggests.

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies ...

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound.

This image shows the RCW 38 stellar cluster in visible light. Dust absorbs most light at these wavelengths, hiding large areas of this cluster from us. ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2.