First identified in the early 19th century, the Helix Nebula is one of the closest to Earth, located about 650 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Astronomers have long studied it ...

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

Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system formed from a cloud of gas and dust called a solar nebula that swirled around, eventually collapsing under its own gravity into a rapidly rotating ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of the Ring Nebula, also known as M57, which is a planetary nebula formed by the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The nebula is located ...

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

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

This composite image shows the star-forming region 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula. The background image, taken in the infrared, is itself a composite: it was captured by the HAWK-I ...

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

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...

“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...