The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

The James Webb Space Telescope ( JWST) is celebrating three years of transformational science with a striking new image of ...

Featuring never-before-seen views of galaxies and more than 2,100 newly discovered asteroids, the observations are only a ...

The spectacle began around 4,000 years ago, when the Nebula Ring's central star, which was more massive than our sun, expelled gases from its outer layers into space.

Located approximately 2,600 light-years from Earth, the nebula was born from a dying star that expelled its outer layers into space. The James Webb Space Telescope during assembly at NASA's ...

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope show two beautiful and unusually dusty planetary nebulae, known as the Butterfly Nebula and the Jewel Bug Nebula. Skip to main content.

The Hubble Space Telescope has long been the window to the wonders of our universe, capturing breathtaking images that reveal ...

NASA releases eerie pictures of ‘ghostly cosmic hand’ in outer space By . Katherine Donlevy. ... A pulsar wind nebula known as MSH 15-52 resembles the “bones of a ghostly cosmic hand.” ...

The Infinite Possibilities in a Tiny Smudge From Outer Space. ... This work in progress is situated in the Orion Nebula, a luminous cloud of interstellar gas and dust about 1,500 light-years away.

Space is bejeweled with the stunning IC 418, a planetary nebula with purple and orange coloring enveloping a bright white core. The nebula lies close to 2,000 light-years from Earth on the way to ...

Fittingly known as the “Necklace Nebula,” this planetary nebula is located 15,000 light-years away from Earth in the small, dim constellation of Sagitta (the Arrow). ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll ...

The nebula’s inner disk is expanding slightly faster than the outer disk leading the astronomers to estimate that the inner disk was formed about 6,600 years ago while the outer ring is about ...