The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

“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 ...

For centuries, the Ring Nebula has captivated astronomers with its stunning, glowing appearance, but a recent discovery has ...

NASA spots a rare, glowing gourd-like structure racing at one million mph—then watches it transform in the blink of an eye ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope uses near-infrared imaging to penetrate dust clouds, revealing the formation of massive ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light view from NASA's Hubble ...

New images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show young stars forming within a "toe bean" on the Cat's Paw Nebula. The Cat's Paw Nebula is named after its resemblance to a feline footprint: ...

The Ring Nebula is a well-known space icon shaped like a doughnut about 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Lyra. But astronomers think it's been holding a secret that only the penetrating ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively expel, surrounding material.

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...

Tendrils of gas and dust arc into the abyss of space while countless stars sparkle their brightest in this image of a faraway stellar nursery. Yet as striking as the snapshot is, it seems to capture ...