nebulae, and exoplanets. Managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, with mission operations ...

Earth, between sweltering Venus and frozen Mars, formed and orbits within a band where water could persist in solid, liquid, and gaseous phases. Mars had surface water, but not as much as Earth, and ...

From the mysterious 'Pillars of Creation' to the iconic Horsehead nebula, check out these 7 breathtaking images of Nebulae ...

Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

This process won't be complete for many millions of years — until then, Queen Berenice II will have to suffer the knots in ...

Orange waves of hot gas, resembling the curved legs of a black widow spider, surround a pinkish glowing core in this image of ...

How would you like to see the farthest thing visible to the naked eye? It’s possible, but you’ll need to bundle up and sit ...

Pismis 24 is a small open star cluster located in the core of the NGC 6357 emission nebula, which is about 8,000 light-years ...

This list of commonly confused terms in astronomy will help you better understand the cosmos and the common phenomena we see in the sky.

These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.

Planetary Nebulae (PNe) are emission-line nebulae in a short-lived late stage of stellar evolution for low- to ...