On Thursday, Feb. 12, Crane Observatory on the fourth floor of Stoffer Hall welcomed visitors for its biweekly open house, ...

A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary ...

All good things must come to an end, and that is even true for planets. Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to ...

Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune will all share the sky as February draws to a close, according to NASA. Jupiter will be the easiest to spot, shining bright and sitting high in the ...

The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or ...

New Hubble images of the Egg Nebula in the constellation Cygnus brings us the clearest look at the first, youngest, and ...

We have never seen the Egg Nebula like this. In a new image taken by Hubble, we can see that the death throes of a dying star ...

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.

In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering rogue planets unbound from the gravitational influence of any star. The ...

At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as NGC 6302, it sits about 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius ...

Discovered at the end of 2023 by the James Webb Space Telescope, these bodies defy star and planet formation models. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...