A shrieking skull, a cackling witch, a ghostly hand and other cosmic illusions haunt our skies. Which do you think is the spookiest object in the universe?

Planetary nebulas are made by dying stars about the size of our sun. One of the most famous is called the Helix or Eye of God Nebula, officially NGC7293. It is about three light years across and ...

More Staring like the unblinking eye of God (or the eye of Sauron, depending on your literary taste) the Helix Nebula is an infamously spooky object that has captivated astronomers for 200 years.

The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Ring Nebula with its two primary imagers, revealing the gaseous formation in never-before-seen detail. The breathtaking images show the hydrogen-rich ...

Head outside this week at around 10 p.m. local daylight time and face due east and locate the Ring Nebula for a summertime skywatching treat.

A new James Webb Space Telescope image of the Ring Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust around a dying star, is showing astronomers unprecedented detail about the mysterious cosmic object.

Fresh observations of the iconic Ring Nebula have traced motions of gas molecules along its border, allowing astronomers to tease out its structure in greater detail.

One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth. Its striking, smoke-ring-like appearance has both ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula.

Where once humans could only see the blurry glow of the Ring Nebula's distant fire, the latest images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have now given us a startlingly sharp map of its ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula.