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 James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) captured the star as it reaches the end of its life.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy ...

Astrophotographer Terry Hancock has captured a dramatic view of the star-forming region IC 1396 — also known as the ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, officially known as NGC 6543, is not only among the most intricate planetary nebulae observed in space, ...

Every star you see in the night sky forms from a nebula, which is a large region of dust and gas in space. One such nebula, the Lagoon Nebula, is visible with binoculars or small telescopes and is ...

Observations with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory captured an X-ray outburst from a young star, revealing a probable scenario for the intermittent brightening of the recently discovered McNeil’s ...

The small open star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357 in Sagittarius, about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. Some of the stars in this cluster are extremely ...

NASA’s space telescopes tuned into an epic cosmic rock show, capturing new images of a space guitar that’s billowing in the wake of an erratic neutron star as it releases a flame-like streak across ...

Spectacular new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope gave astronomers a detailed, never-before-seen look at a dying star. The star is actually one of two at the heart of NGC 1514, a nebula in ...

NASA, Donald Walter/South Carolina State University/Paul Scowen/ Brian Moore/Arizona State University A glimpse up at the night sky will reveal a seemingly endless landscape of twinkling stars, but ...

NASA shared an image of the stunning Necklace Nebula, created by two stars locked in a dance of mutually assured destruction. The latest Hubble image appears to capture a cosmic jellyfish floating in ...