The Crab Nebula (M1) has one of the most famous origin stories around: The light from the supernova that created the nebula ...

About 10,000 years ago, a new star appeared in what we now recognize as Cygnus the Swan. It was the light from a supernova explosion that occurred about 2,400 years earlier, when a star with roughly ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed thick, dusty layers of the Cat's Claw Nebula, a region of star formation about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, the agency has ...

The 100 light-year-long form of the Lagoon Nebula (Messier 8) can be found dominating the lower section of Meyer's image, with the dense starfield near the Milky Way's core serving as a backdrop ...