This detailed image of a famous supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus is the hauntingly beautiful swan song for a massive star.

The Top 100 Hubble Pictures Series. Today we are travelling to the Tarantula Nebula or 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic ...

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

A nebula where young stars sculpt dragon-like forms has been imaged in colorful detail by the Dark Energy Camera in Chile.

A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...

Astronomers led by Simon Portegies Zwart used simulations to reconstruct how three stars were ejected from the star cluster ...

On May 20, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope sent its first image to Earth. This photo turned out to be 50% sharper than ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest exoplanet ever detected.