Are they stars? Are they planets? Or are they neither? Some rogue planetary mass objects that wander the cosmos alone could ...

This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with ...

This is an 80-million-pixel picture of the star cluster RCW 38, located 5500 light-years away in the constellation Vela.RCW 38 is a young cluster containing about 2000 stars, and is bursting with ...

A giant new photo reveals clouds of dust and gas stretching around a cluster of young blue stars about 4,600 light-years from Earth. The cluster, known as Messier 18, is made up of stars that were ...

"Previous to the Phoenix, the most star-forming galaxy cluster in the universe had about 100 stars per year, and even that was an outlier. The typical number is one-ish," McDonald says.

While they have been spotted in abundance in young star clusters such as the Trapezium Cluster in Orion (Fig. 1), their origin has puzzled scientists. Traditional theories have suggested that they ...

a 10-million-year-old open star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way that boasts an abundance of star-forming regions. A few young stars shine through dense ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a key ingredient within the cluster that ...