Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a star-studded nebula scene that conjures the image of a colossal baboon raging in the depths of space. The outline of the cosmic simian's mouth and face are ...

The James Webb Space Telescope, with data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, together captured the dusty core of the Butterfly Nebula. ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Matsuura, ALMA ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula, seen here in images from ...

Hard to believe but it's already three years since the James Webb Space Telescope started its science operations. NASA has celebrated with a deep dive into the Cat's Paw Nebula. To celebrate the third ...

French astronaut Sophie Adenot will take food from Michelin-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic to the International Space Station during her 2026 European Space Agency mission. French cuisine has a ...

Astronomy Hubble went supernova hunting — and found something unexpected: Space photo of the week Astronomy Soar through 44 million stars in Gaia telescope's latest 3D map of our galaxy — Space photo ...

In the early morning hours of April 21, 2025, SpaceX launched an uncrewed Dragon spacecraft with its 32nd delivery of supplies for the International Space Station. After the Falcon 9 rocket's first ...

The plume from a rocket engine burn high in Earth's atmosphere caused a glowing spectacle similar in appearance to a nebula. What is it? In the early morning hours of April 21, 2025, SpaceX launched ...

James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week 'Butterfly Nebula' spreads its wings in dazzling new James Webb telescope image James ...

Astronomers nicknamed the structure around PSR B2224+65 the Guitar Nebula because of its rockin' shape. X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford Univ./M. de Vries et al.; Optical: (Hubble) NASA/ESA/STScI and (Palomar ...

The Guitar Nebula is a fascinating cosmic object that was named for its uncanny resemblance to the instrument in glowing hydrogen light. The cosmic guitar isn’t idle, though. It is constantly on the ...