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The Snail nebula resembles a glowing eye with a bright shell around the center. The horse's Head looks different: its recognizable silhouette forms a dark cloud of gas and dust against the background ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) form—a longstanding mystery in astrophysics The recent discovery of JuMBOs in ...

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 ...

We're just a few weeks out from Halloween, and NASA has shared an appropriately spooky sight lurking in deep space.

NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Discovered on Sept. 5, 1826 by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, this nebula is ...

The Halloween season is here, and even the cosmos get in on the occasion—at least if you squint hard enough at the night sky.

The cool clouds of the Eta Carina Nebula, which contains some of the Milky Way’s highest-mass stars, have been imaged using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Atacama Pathfinder Experiment ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard Scientists studying the Tarantula Nebula say they have gained a greater understanding of how stars form. The ...

“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

First Quarter Moon occurs at 10:46 p.m. EDT. The Moon is up nearly all evening, not setting until after 11 P.M. local daylight time, so our viewing options are a bit more limited, with only a short ...