It’s one of the most common words used by astronomers—and two of them featured in the James Webb Space Telescope’s debut image package—but do you know what a nebula is?

Located about 3,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, there exists a planetary nebula known as the 'Butterfly Nebula' (NGC 6302). It is renowned for its unique double-wing ...

NASA has unveiled a breathtaking new image showing what appears to be a massive “cosmic hand” stretching across 150 ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is captured in this image by the Gemini North telescope. The incredible sensitivity of Gemini North's ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called the Tarantula Nebula. Most of the nebulae Hubble images are in our galaxy, ...

Astronomers create a 3D image of the Cat's Eye Nebula in order to determine how it developed its unique and intricate shape.

The blue reflection nebula M78 lies about 1,600 light-years away in Orion. It is a cloud of interstellar gas and dust that owes its luminosity to embedded, bright, blue, early B-type stars ...

A rare black moon will happen tonight Aug. 22-23. Don't worry too much if you miss it, although it won't happen again for ...

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped ...

Astronomers have unpacked the mystery of how one star’s death created the nebula NGC 3132 — never before seen in such detail.