NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Dr. Jennifer Wiseman explains the Hubble Space Telescope's view of the Pillars of Creation ...
Sky Shorts author says Orion a favorite constellation, and shares key details to find and appreciate its beauty.
Like a recording artist who has had a long career, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has a “back catalog” of cosmic recordings ...
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb explains why Jan. 22’s rare “full moon phase” alignment was so significant for 3I/ATLAS.
Some stars appear to defy time itself. Nestled within ancient star clusters, they shine bluer and brighter than their neighbors, looking far younger than their true age. Known as blue straggler stars, ...
"Until now, it was unknown what type of star would remain after the merger." ...
In the most extensive ultraviolet study of blue stragglers ever performed, an international research team used NASA's and ESA ...
The reality is that NASA is struggling under the weight of its own history. The agency was built for the Cold War, when budgets were near-unlimited and the government was the prim ...
It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.
The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...
A new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) highlights cometlike knots, fierce ...
While the Perseverance rover continues to capture amazing images of the Martian surface, we also look back at Voyager 2's ...