Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points ...

The Chandra team has released a striking new composite image of the Cocoon Nebula, a reflection and emission nebula in the ...

Rays of light beam from a mass of dust, glancing off banks of cloud 1,000 light years from Earth. The nebula glows not ...

Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.

NASA shared a Valentine’s Day image of a heart-shaped nebula showing newborn stars forming within glowing gas and cosmic dust clouds.

As children, many of us remember lying on terraces or open fields, trying to count stars. One, two, three and then losing ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed view highlights glowing knots of gas shaped by fast-moving stellar winds ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image of the Helix Nebula from the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view of the planetary ...