Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

This image of the Helix Nebula, released on March 4, 2025, shows a potentially destructive white dwarf at the nebula's center ...

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits ...

A team of astronomers recently tapped into JWST’s capabilities to explore the smallest objects in the Flame Nebula.

Their origins posed a particular puzzle in 2023, when astronomers discovered 40 pairs of planetary mass objects called Jupiter-Mass Binary Objects, or JuMBOs, in the Orion nebula. With masses ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...