Seven stunning images of the Milky Way taken by NASA’s Hubble Telescope show stars, nebulae, and cosmic beauty., Technology & ...

Purgathofer-Weinberger 1, a faint planetary nebula about 1,300 light-years away, is the second-largest planetary nebula in ...

Jones-Emberson 1, sometimes called the Headphone Nebula due to its distinct shape, is a great challenge target for backyard ...

The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and millions of glittering galaxies.

For the photographers honored at the 2025 Astronomy Photographer of the Year awards, the universe is their muse. From our ...

Nebulae are all but impossible to spot in the night sky, but you'd never know it. Through a telescope, they make the most jaw-dropping beauty shots. But what is a nebula in the first place?

Researchers stitched together hundreds of images from the Very Large Telescope to form a breathtaking photo of a nearby ...

Greetings, stargazers. Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all ...

Nebulae come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and are often brilliantly colored masses that take on breathtaking formations, many of which resemble things here on Earth ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.

Astronomers studying dying stars' colorful cast-offs have discovered a mysterious pattern: Some planetary nebulae in the Milky Way galaxy’s central bulge are strangely aligned, according to a ...