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

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

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 ...

Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has inspected an icy protoplanetary disk of a ...

Astronomers have identified the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This immense ...

The Butterfly Nebula, officially designated NGC 6302, is a bipolar planetary nebula situated in the constellation Scorpius. The Tarantula Nebula is a vast H II region located within the Large ...

Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Backlit wisps along the Horsehead Nebula upper ridge are being illuminated by Sigma Orionis. Hubble’s Spirograph In this classic Hubble image from 2000, ...

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

Encounter Blew Away Most of Smaller Galaxy's Gaseous Halo In a dramatic tale of survival captured by the Hubble Space ...

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

Mike Wall Read more: SpaceX rolls Starship spacecraft to pad ahead of Nov. 18 launch (photos) Tuesday, November 12, 2024: The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose ...