CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A trio of massive, young star clusters found embedded in a star cloud may shed light on the formation of super-star clusters and globular clusters. The discovery, made with images ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has peered into a fascinating cluster of stars located towards the center of our Milky Way. Known as the Quintuplet Cluster, this region had been hard to observe ...

Globular clusters — dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars — are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples are ...

Picture of the month: The European Space Agency has shared a dazzling image of Westerlund 1, a super star cluster situated around 12,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara. It was first ...

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for ...