"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds." ...

Orion, Pleiades, and Hyades may be stages of one star system’s life, revealing how star clusters form and change.

In a groundbreaking study published in The Astrophysical Journal, scientists have uncovered an unusual star cluster called Ophion that challenges our understanding of how star families evolve ...

NASA found another holiday-themed star cluster last year Officially called NGC 2264, the "Christmas tree cluster" is located about 2,500 lightyears Earth in our own Milky Way galaxy.

Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster ...

For example, the famous Pleiades star cluster (Messier 45), which is a tight grouping of young stars visible to the naked eye in the constellation of Taurus, the Bull, is 100 million years old ...

Astronomers have managed to recreate a dramatic cosmic event that happened 60,000 years ago in a giant star cluster called ...

NGC 346 is home to a cluster of more than 2,500 young stars. The star cluster is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way galaxy that sits about 199,000 light ...