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

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

The Horsehead Nebula is a part of much larger complex in the constellation Orion. Known collectively as the Orion Molecular Cloud, it also houses other famous objects, such as the Great Orion Nebula.

This week, NASA and ESA highlighted an image captured by Hubble of the highly productive Tarantula Nebula (officially named 30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and it’s a sight to behold. The ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still trucking along more than 30 years after its launch, observing the universe and sending ...

This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the Orion Nebula, highlighting two young protostars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153. These protostars are actively shaping their surroundings ...

The SMA data pinpoint the velocities and locations of the carbon dioxide molecules ejected by the dying star that generated the Ring Nebula and reveal its 3D shape, which can't be inferred from ...

About 100 years after astronomer Edwin Hubble's discovered the "magnificent" spiral nebula, the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA scientists have produced the most comprehensive survey of the ...

This image presents a composite view of the Crab Nebula, a famous supernova remnant within the Milky Way galaxy. This image, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope using its NIRCam ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

NGC 6302, a swirling cloud of dust and stars, has unfolded into a majestic butterfly-shaped nebula. According to NASA, the star at the center of this nebula is one of the hottest in the Milky Way, ...