Astronomers are rethinking what looks like the Milky Way’s quieter neighborhood, as new analysis of nearby gas clouds points ...

A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary ...

The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of gases? Researchers led by Zheng Cai, a postdoctoral ...

New Hubble images of the Egg Nebula in the constellation Cygnus brings us the clearest look at the first, youngest, and ...

The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most iconic spectacles in astronomy, having been imaged and photographed from a myriad of telescopic instruments, including amateur telescopes, ground-based ...

Out in the cosmic landscape, planetary nebulas would offer the perfect Halloween doors to knock on. They're spooky tricksters in their names, as they have nothing to do with planets at all and are ...

The "Boogie Man Nebula" haunts the cosmos in this deep-space image by astrophotographer Jeff Johnson. Also known as Lynds Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622, this dark cloud of interstellar dust and gas lies ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured its first set of striking images of the Ring Nebula (M57), revealing detail and intricate features of the final stages of a dying star. Located about ...