The Hubble Space Telescope affords astronomers great looks at stars within the Milky Way, but it's sensitive enough to also study objects outside our home galaxy. And Hubble's views of distant places ...

Learn how NASA’s TESS and ESA’s Gaia missions helped astronomers uncover thousands of hidden stars, revealing that the ...

Astronomers have discovered the famous Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster, which is featured in many Aboriginal songlines ...

A new study reveals that the Pleiades is the core of a once-much-larger cluster, many of whose members have scattered to the ...

Astronomers have revolutionized our understanding of a collection of stars in the northern sky called the Pleiades. They used ...

Alnitak, the leftmost star in Orion's belt, is a type O star, characterized by its extreme heat, blue color, and high luminosity (equivalent to 10,000 Suns). Alnitak's high mass (28 times that of the ...

An international team of astronomers reported evidence for the formation of mysterious “super star clusters” Jan. 9 at the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, D.C. These ...

Sky watchers across the globe were treated to a spectacular partial solar eclipse this weekend when the Moon moved between the Sun and Earth and appeared to take a 'bite' out of our home star. The ...