Nebulae are some of the most beautiful structures to be found in space: vast clouds of dust and gas that are illuminated by light from nearby stars. These regions are often busy sites of star ...

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

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

The familiar structure of the Lyra Nebula (or Ring Nebula) has just revealed an unexpected feature. At the heart of this ...

Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy, was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1779 and has ...

A new mystery about the colorful Ring Nebula has again caught attention in space.A huge bar of iron has been discovered ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a close-up view of a dying star located 650 light-years away, which is ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

The discovery reminds us just how little we really know about our galaxy In A Nutshell The Mystery: Evidence suggests dust is ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

Astronomers have spotted a mysterious cloud in the shape of a bar 2,600 light-years from Earth.