When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The open star cluster NGC 460 is located within a greater collection of nebulae and star clusters ...

The most distant star ever discovered may have been misclassified: Instead of being a single star, the object — nicknamed Earendel from the Old English word for "morning star" — may be a star cluster, ...

A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This detection confirms the feasibility of this formation route for nuclei in dwarf ...

The differences in location between open and globular star clusters result from the interplay between gravity and rotational motion. This rotational motion is called angular momentum, and is a ...

New research demonstrated a possible formation mechanism of intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters, star clusters that could contain tens of thousands or even millions of tightly packed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good news, skywatchers in Oregon: A group of about 1,000 stars known as the beehive cluster is swarming a sky near you. Spectators ...

Supermassive black holes appear to reside at the center of every galaxy and to have done so since galaxies formed early in the history of the Universe. Currently, however, we can’t entirely explain ...

The James Webb Space Telescope imaged Earendel, thought to be most distant star seen in the universe so far. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA A quirk of nature that helps magnify extremely distant cosmic ...

One of the hallmarks of the midwinter Colorado sky is the presence of a comparatively large number of stellar groupings, which are called “open” or galactic star clusters. Unlike the globular clusters ...