An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...

The Carina Nebula sits roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. (Image credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl) Seeing that far into space can be tricky, even when gazing at one of our galaxy's brightest objects ...

In a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula — the dying gasps of one of the hottest stars in the sky, which could hold clues to Earth's origins.

Previous observations of Pa 30 revealed a white dwarf star at the center of the nebula. The superdense object is all that remains of the exploding star that lit up the night sky 843 years ago.

According to this theory, the shock wave would have injected material from the exploding star into the solar nebula. Scientists have previously detected potential evidence of this pollution in ...

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

According to NASA, nebulas are giant clouds of dust and gases in space. They form from an explosion of a dying star or where ...

The Veil Nebula, located about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is the visible portion of that larger ...

Eta Carinae has been exploding for nearly 200 years, and now we're firing lasers at it.