You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

The familiar structure of the Lyra Nebula (or Ring Nebula) has just revealed an unexpected feature. At the heart of this ...

Stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions and even a visible nebula. Yes, a formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" – ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a close-up view of a dying star located 650 light-years away, which is ...

Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.

A new mystery about the colorful Ring Nebula has again caught attention in space.A huge bar of iron has been discovered ...

"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

The discovery reminds us just how little we really know about our galaxy In A Nutshell The Mystery: Evidence suggests dust is ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - The Ring Nebula, a stunning celestial structure residing in our neighborhood of the Milky Way ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

Nebulae are some of the most beautiful structures to be found in space: vast clouds of dust and gas that are illuminated by light from nearby stars. These regions are often busy sites of star ...