The sixth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features the final act of a star near the end of its life.

By analyzing the data from the SuperCOSMOS Hα Survey (SHS) and from the Gaia satellite, astronomers have inspected a bipolar ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

The Sh2-284 nebula has been imaged VLT Survey Telescope. The "region of dust and gas that’s teeming with young stars, located ...

A stellar nursery bursts with bubbles, plankton paint the North Atlantic, jets stream from a galactic merger and more in our selections for this week's best space-related images. Even in space, hot ...

The evocative scene captures the swirling gas of the nebula Sh2-132, known as the Lion Nebula, located around 10,000 ...

Located 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation, this nebula's unusual shape is a result of its central ...

Located 6,500 light-years away, this cosmic view is a rich tapestry of star formation. This stunning view of the Running Chicken Nebula, IC 2944, took astrophotographer Rod Prazeres over 42 hours to ...