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 ...

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

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

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

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

With 2024 coming to a close, we look at the biggest space achievements of the year from NASA, SpaceX, China, and more.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected frozen water and other volatile compounds within a protoplanetary disk 1,300 light-years away in the Or ...

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 James Webb Space Telescope uncovers frozen water in a distant protoplanetary disk, revealing insights into the origins of ...

is a planetary nebula in the constellation Aquarius. It is about 1400 light years away from the earth. NASA captured the stunning image of NGC 6826, also known as Caldwell 15, is a planetary nebula ...