This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

The NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the Horse-head Nebula. It is the sharpest infrared imagery to date. The iconic nebula is about 1300 light-years away.

Stunning new imagery and other data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveal new details about a pair of enigmatic infrared ring structures accompanying a distant planetary nebula. The new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak ...

Space can be a wondrous place, and we've got the pictures to prove it! Take a look at our favorite space pictures here, and if you're wondering what happened to today in space history don't miss ...

Space scientists say they have located a planet killer capable ... The white dwarf (center) - named WD 2226-210 - and the Helix Nebula. (ESA/D. Ducros via SWNS) Dating back to 1980, X-ray missions ...

A few young stars shine through dense clouds of gas and dust in the Orion Nebula’s Trapezium embedded cluster, 1,500 light-years from Earth. This Hubble image of a loosely bound collections of ...

But, its most distinctive feature is the dark, starry gap called a “superbubble,” visible in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Crab Nebula: In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the ...

Most stars form in a similar way. Clouds of dust and gas floating in space called nebulae eventually begin to coalesce into clumps. The larger of these elements start to have stronger gravitational ...

The 1840s eruption created the Homunculus Nebula, transforming this binary star system into a unique object. Its cause remains unknown. The giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue ...

Two new photos taken by the intrepid telescope and released to celebrate the eye on the sky's 28th birthday show the Lagoon Nebula, a region of space filled with gas and dust that has given way to ...