An amateur astrophotographer has brought to light a breathtaking view of a distant stellar nursery. Using custom-built gear ...

Elephant Trunk Nebula with twisting columns and glowing filaments was captured by Terry Hancock, offering a spectacular ...

“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, illustrating how hot, bright stars at the heart of the Rosette are ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of a double-star system, has formed a cosmic hourglass — and the James Webb Space Telescope imaged the scene in splendiferous ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently peered into one-third of a unique nebula. The revolutionary telescope studies the cosmos in the infrared, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

A group of extremely bright stars may be slowly reshaping the Orion Nebula and stopping one of their neighbors from forming planets, new James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest. When you ...

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...