A searchlight shines through concentric circles of fresh stardust ejected by a dying star in this beautiful new image of the Egg Nebula. The dramatic scene, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, ...

On its 36th anniversary, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope revisits the Trifid Nebula, providing new insights on a familiar ...

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

NASA has detected an odd 'cosmic pomegranate' that is firing near-perfect spheres out of the Cranium Nebula. What is causing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope revisits a star-forming region 5,000 light-years from Earth, which it first captured in 1997, ...

In 2010 astronomers made a marvelous discovery: buckyballs, also known as buckminsterfullerene molecules, inside a planetary ...

Aug. 28 (UPI) --The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula. The telescope ...

Located approximately 4,000 light-years from Earth, the Cat’s Paw Nebula is a massive star-forming region in the constellation Scorpius. The James Webb Space Telescope far surpasses the abilities of ...

A stellar nursery bursts with bubbles, plankton paint the North Atlantic, jets stream from a galactic merger and more in our selections for this week's best space-related images. Even in space, hot ...

Readings from the Iris Nebula could reveal where Earth got the complex molecules needed to start life all those millennia ago. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...