The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

NGC 460 in the Small Magellanic Cloud reveals young star clusters shaping glowing gas clouds and nebulae, where stellar winds and radiation trigger new star formation. Credit: NASA, ESA, and C.

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar nursery located in the constellation Centaurus. See a 3D animation created from VLT ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has once again unveiled astonishing celestial phenomena, most notably the discovery of ...

Rising 9.5 light-years high and 7,000 light-years away, this stunning pillar is captured in Hubble’s newly processed image ...

A powerful new telescope in Chile is set to transform astronomy, and its first pictures of stellar nurseries and galaxies have just been unveiled ...

In its debut, the telescope turned its eye toward two familiar showstoppers in deep space: the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas in ...

The powerful device will scan the sky like never before, capturing vast amounts of data to reveal how the universe changes ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has released its first images, unveiling galaxies, nebulae and over 2,000 new asteroids.