One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth. Its striking, smoke-ring-like appearance has both awed ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal.

The closest nebula to Earth is the Helix Nebula, which is about 700 light years away from Earth. Space telescopes are ...

2024 YR4 was discovered on Dec. 27 last year through the ATLAS telescope in Chile. The probability of this asteroid colliding ...

These changes are reflected in the nebula as parts of it are illuminated by the rotating beam of light from the binary system. 'NASA’s dire warning': A solar storm could send Earth into global ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

Watch the mesmerizing Tarantula Nebula video captured by the Hubble telescope, showcasing the most productive star-forming ...

The United States Postal Service has issued two new stamps featuring stellar images beamed back to Earth by the James Webb ...