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

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula.

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

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has made yet another stunning discovery to round out three years of space exploration. This ...

Feast your eyes on the most mesmerizing feline foot known to humankind. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured this ...

Learn more about how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will capture more of our stunning universe.

Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

This emission is strongest under conditions which are intermediate between those in the interior of nebula and those in the ...