The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured detailed images of gas and dust shaped by a dying star in the Helix Nebula, ...

Known as dinosaur stars for both their primeval nature and their immense size, Population III stars existed only when the ...

What we see is sobering. In our simulations, electrodes can fracture during the deep freeze of a lunar night. Under direct ...

Many observatories have captured the Helix Nebula, but none in such detail as the Webb.

While the Perseverance rover continues to capture amazing images of the Martian surface, we also look back at Voyager 2's ...

Hubble has revealed a strange cosmic object called Cloud-9, a dark matter–dominated cloud with no stars at all. Scientists ...

The aurora lit up skies across Canada, Southern California, and several parts of Europe between January 18 and 19, following ...

Young stars need time to grow into their final masses before they begin fusing lighter elements into heavier elements as main ...

Astronomers using the NASA and European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope have identified what appears to be a ...