The rare supernova, named SN 2024PI ... which shows our home planet as a distant, colorful speck in a vast, mostly empty cosmos.

As it nears 35 consecutive years of space service, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken another look at a famous supernova remnant ... 10,000 years ago. This colorful new view combines ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \({Nebula}\rightarrow{protostar}\rightarrow{main~sequence~star}\rightarrow{red ...

An illustration of a supernova burst. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) Radiation from an exploding star may have had a profound effect on the evolution of life on Earth, a new study suggests.

Take the famous photo of the Pillars of Creation, or Hubble’s Deep Field Image, for instance — this colorful image of the Vela Supernova Remnant can stand with the best of them. This wispy web ...

Commonly known as the Lagoon Nebula, M8 was discovered in 1654 by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna, who, like Charles Messier, sought to catalog nebulous objects in the night sky so ...