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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The Orion Nebula is a giant gas cloud 1,344 light years away. It's also a cosmic factory for producing new stars. Astronomers recently observed over 900 small ...

To celebrate Hubble's 26th birthday photographing the universe, NASA released awesome images the telescope captured of the "Bubble Nebula" — which looks like a giant soap bubble in space.

The Ring Nebula is perhaps one of the most photographed objects in the night sky, dating back to its first image in 1886. Its intrinsic structure has been debated for as long as it has been observed.

Hanging from the three closely spaced stars of his belt, the sword of Orion contains the massive, red-glowing Orion Nebula, ...