The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

The final day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar shows a new view of one of the most famous deep-space images of ...

The NGC 2264 is a vast stellar complex located in the Monoceros constellation, about 2,600 light-years away. It includes two ...

Just in time for Christmas, a vast star-forming region shaped like a Christmas tree is lighting up space 2,700 light-years ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree.

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

King Tut’s alabaster jars have long held mystery. A new Yale study finds chemical evidence suggesting they once contained ...

It was a Christmas morning like no other, that mid-pandemic day in 2021. True, there were the usual living-room delights: the ...

A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly. The National Science Foundation's NoirLab released the picture on Wednesday. The glowing "wings" ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure and dynamic gas flows. Reading time 2 minutes This newly released image from ...

Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image released on Oct. 26, 2025.

A nebula takes on the appearance of a rampaging lion in a new deep space vista captured by astrophotographer Ronald Brecher under a near-full moon from his home in Ontario, Canada, in October earlier ...