Just a few hundred light years from Earth, a swollen red giant is quietly forcing astronomers to rethink how stars seed the galaxy with the raw materials for planets and life. New observations of the ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...

This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...