This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft carrying Axiom-4 astronauts heads to the International Space Station.

The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...

Horsehead Nebula's iconic 'mane' is seen in stunning detail in new Webb images: See photos NASA released photos this week that give the equine-shaped feature a literal close-up.

Detailed new images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago.

The Dark Energy Camera captured glowing nebulae in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region, illuminating the dense clouds with ...

A portion of the Rosette Nebula. NASA. Hubble even grabbed snaps of galaxy NGC 5335, which is categorized as a flocculent spiral galaxy — characterized as having ‘flaky,’ discontinuous ...

The Guitar Nebula is a giant cloud of hydrogen gas located around 6,500 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way that formed in the wake of the collapse of the B2224+65a pulsar, a rapidly-spinning ...

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...

NASA affectionately calls it a “Space Butterfly,” but in reality it’s a pair of massive gas clouds. Its official name is Westerhout 40 (W40), and it’s a nebula.

In the newly released picture on its website nasa.gov as Astronomy Picture of the Day on June 17, it asked the question 'Can ...

The Cat's Eye Nebula, a planetary nebula formally known as NGC 6543. According to NASA, "Observations suggest the star ejected its mass in a series of pulses at 1,500-year intervals.