Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

NASA has released new cosmic images captured by the Hubble and James Webb telescopes. The images feature stellar phenomena like Westerlund 2, Jupiter's auroras, the Lost Galaxy, the Black Eye ...

NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way — alongside a sun-focused mission called PUNCH is facing ...

Now, NASA is inviting the public to honor the telescope ... clubs to conduct “star parties” to introduce people to the nebulae, star clusters and galaxies spotted by Hubble in its decades ...