The VLT recently captured an image of an object known as Ve 7–27, which was long thought to be a planetary nebula. However, ...

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming ...

You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

The Pelican Nebula is located in the constellation Cygnus, the swan.

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...

In the Helix Nebula, a star much like our own is dying. Its death, though, creates a spectacle for us to appreciate now we ...

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 Cat's Paw Nebula is named after its resemblance to a feline footprint: ...

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of ...