The image captured by the space telescope shows hundreds of objects in a variety of colors, shapes, and sizes scattered across the vast, dark expanse of space. At the center, a bright yellow star is ...

Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...

A supernova is one of the most powerful and mysterious phenomena in the universe. It’s an event that occurs when a star ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Exploding stars in near-solar space may have triggered at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history.

In 1949, astronomers using these directions spotted the first visible object outside the solar system that was associated with a discrete radio source: the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a star ...

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and advanced computer models have classified a type of planet unlike any in our solar system. Researcher have named this newly discovered creature after the ...