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 ...

Young stars enveloped in a transformative cocoon of gas shine brightly in a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope.

After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed high-resolution observations of a nearby ...

The universe showcases its beauty through nebulae, vibrant cosmic clouds of gas and dust illuminated by stars, offering mesmerizing visuals in dazzling colors. The Orion Nebula, 1,344 light-years ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...

Stunning James Webb Space Telescope images reveal new details about a pair of mysterious infrared rings around planetary ...

Astronomy is arguably the oldest science, and has featured strongly throughout the history of Nature — the first quasar, the first exoplanet, the nature of spiral nebulae, to name but a few of ...