When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

NGC 2566: The galaxy filling the frame in this James Webb Space Telescope image is NGC 2566, a spiral galaxy in the ...

This striking collage compares images of the Flame Nebula captured by NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes. On the left, the visible light view from Hubble reveals dense gas and dust ...

The Helix nebula may point to the ultimate fate of our ... Toala of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been hunting for brown dwarfs for decades. Previously, Hubble identified possible candidates in a region of the Flame Nebula called the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.

Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on the sky's 28th birthday show the Lagoon Nebula, a region of space filled with gas and dust that has given way to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images, released today by an international team of astronomers ...

sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of a double-star system, has formed a cosmic hourglass — and the James Webb Space Telescope imaged ...

Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar ... stunning regions of space. Credit: Space.com | animation: ESO/VPHAS+ team. Acknowledgement: CASU | edited by Steve Spaleta See pictures of the total lunar ...