Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image of the Horsehead Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope focuses on a portion of the horse's "mane" that is about ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured a massive stellar jet in the Sharpless 2-284 (Sh2-284 ...

A massive stellar wind bubble sculpts the nebula into the shape of the Norse god's famous helmet.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest image ever taken of the Egg Nebula, a structure roughly 1,000 light-years from Earth where a dying star is shedding its outer layers in dramatic ...

A quarter-century after first observing the full Crab Nebula, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a fresh look at the expanding remains of the long-dead star. The new image, published in The ...

The space around our planet is filled with mysteries and wonders, many of which are brought to light with reassuring regularity by the space telescopes that keep watch of our surroundings. The most ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unlocked a window into our universe unlike any before. Using its powerful infrared vision, JWST can peer into the hearts of stellar nurseries. JWST reveals how ...

Two telescopes have captured images of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing how a dying star shed layers of material in violent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image of the Helix Nebula from the ground-based Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view of ...

When astronomers looked at a stellar pair at the heart of a stunning cloud of gas and dust, they were in for a surprise. Star pairs are typically very similar, like twins, but in HD 148937, one star ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...