The Veil Nebula, located about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is the visible portion of that larger Cygnus Loop, a vast supernova remnant created by the explosion of a star about ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a new view of a planet-forming disk within the Taurus star-forming region.

A few days ago, while browsing an astronomy forum late at night, I stumbled upon an image that nearly startled me awake — ...

As we chatted, I suddenly had a thought: what if there really are aliens in the Andromeda Galaxy? Can they see us Earthlings ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy. In this image ...

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 the ...

3I/ATLAS first made news in July when scientists confirmed it as the third-ever observed interstellar interloper in our solar system. The space object further attracted the public's fascination again ...