Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Telescope have discovered an "exhaust vent attached to a “chimney” of hot gas blowing away from the center of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the Chandra team.

The known black holes that populate the universe fall into two types: those up to a few dozen times the mass of the sun and ...

Created by a young star, the bipolar star-forming region Sharpless 2-106 in this Hubble image depicts how intense the ...

The discovery comes just days before what is anticipated to be a bumper year for exoplanet discovery, with the James Webb Space Telescope scheduled to release more data.

The Orion Nebula is a cloud of dust and gas in the constellation Orion that's visible to the naked eye in dark skies. The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius ...

A new image resembling a Christmas wreath captures young stars lighting up dense, dark clouds of dust. The image features NGC 602, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy to the ...