M2-9 is a striking example of a "butterfly" or a bipolar planetary nebula. Another more revealing name might be the "Twin Jet ...

NASA captured a new composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra. The Eskimo Nebula, also known as the Clown Face Nebula, Lion Nebula, or Caldwell 39, is a bipolar double-shell ...

has made a remarkable discovery to expand the understanding of the origins of water and planetary formation. By detecting ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases.

The Red Spider Nebula: Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula formally known as NGC 6543. According to NASA, "Observations suggest the star ...

Perplexing data in the early 2000s raised questions about how planetary formation began in the universe, and new data from ...

When a mid-sized star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star ...

Hen 2-437 was added to a catalog of planetary nebula over two decades later by astronomer and NASA astronaut Karl Gordon Henize. Sparkling at the center of this beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

The cosmic blowtorch, which contains antimatter particles created from pure energy, is helping scientists to learn more about the space in between stars, NASA says. The nebula was first discovered ...

What did you get fot X-mas? Scientists may have been gifted with a solution to the mystery of juMBOs, strange celestial ...