You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

There, stretching across the heart of the cloud of cosmic dust and gas, lies a giant, oddly linear, bar-shaped cloud of ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured mesmerizing new images of the Helix Nebula. With the use of Webb’s NIRCAm, pillars ...

Webb’s latest image of the Helix Nebula reveals a dramatic close-up of a dying star shedding its outer layers. The detailed ...

Deep inside the Ring Nebula, astronomers have spotted a structure that should not exist: a narrow, glowing bar of iron ...

See, for example, JWST’s latest images of the iconic Helix Nebula, also known as the “Eye of God,” a stellar grave site some ...

A new mystery about the colorful Ring Nebula has again caught attention in space.A huge bar of iron has been discovered ...

Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the ...

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

A new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) highlights cometlike knots, fierce ...

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...