NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted a region of the Milky Way that is building stars at a rapid pace. These so-called "Star Factories" are filled with gas and dust that form into all manner of ...

Stars are being mined in our backyard. That may be a bit of a stretch for something that's 6,400 light years away, but given the infinite reaches of outer space, the star factory that NASA's Hubble ...

In a significant stride for cosmic evolution studies, astronomers have unveiled a galaxy that is churning out stars at a staggering rate, 180 times faster than our own Milky Way. This superheated star ...

Astronomers have uncovered a galaxy that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way. Observations through the ALMA telescope, which is one of the largest in the world, revealed a previously ...

Galaxy Y1 shines thanks to dust grains heated by newly-formed stars (circled in this image from the James Webb telescope). Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory ...