A Northwestern University-led team of astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to discover a former star that ...

A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary ...

Astronomy does not belong off Earth. It belongs wherever the universe can be observed — and that necessarily includes the surface of the planet humans live on. Kelsey Johnson: Past President of the ...

New research using the James Webb Space Telescope offers the most detailed portrait yet of how auroras form on Uranus.

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an amazing view of spiral galaxy NGC 6956. The galaxy is located "214 million light-years ...

If you think auroras on Earth are a strange and mesmerizing sight, that's nothing like what occurs on the perplexing world of Uranus.

Called CDG-2, this newly identified “ghostly” galaxy may be one of the most dark matter-dominated galaxies ever discovered, with a staggering 99% of its total mass made up of dark matter — a ...

Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...

Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.

Hen 2-427 is considered a Wolf-Rayet class star. Such stars were named after astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet.