While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it's actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a ...

Blakesley Burkhart, a Rutgers University astrophysicist and professor, has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is among the closest to Earth ever detected. The cloud is 300 light years ...

Astronomers are celebrating NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope’s 33rd launch anniversary with an ethereal photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333. The nebula is in the Perseus molecular cloud, and ...

A Rutgers University research team in New Jersey spotted the newly found cloud, which was named Eos—after the Greek deity of dawn. Being only 300 light-years away, it is the closest known big ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive molecular cloud that is also a huge possible star producer - of the celestial sort. The cloud has been hiding in plain sight. Astronomers just needed the right ...

Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust and serve a vital purpose in star formation. Eos, a crescent-shaped gas cloud, is located about 300 light years away from Earth and is the size of 40 ...