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

The solar system formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Numerous fragments that bear witness to this early era orbit the Sun as asteroids. Around three-quarters of these are carbon-rich C-type ...

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 ...

White dwarfs, the compact remnants of low- to intermediate-mass stars, offer a unique window into the fate of planetary systems. Recent observational and theoretical work has revealed that many white ...

In a recent breakthrough, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a joint mission by NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), has provided extraordinary images that ...

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 ...

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" ...