This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image presents a visually striking collection of interstellar gas and dust. The Orion Nebula is a picture book of star formation, from the massive, young stars ...

Specifically, they mapped movements of carbon monoxide gas molecules that outline the nebula. Kastner said tracking the velocities and locations of those molecules, which were thrown out by the dying, ...

NASA’s recent Image of the Day was the outer regions of the Tarantula Nebula, which is billed as one of the biggest and ...

The hypothetical object might not have necessarily been a planet, but would have needed to be heavy enough to cause a ...

Here are 7 beautiful nebula images captured by NASA Hubble Space Telescope such as Veil Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, Hubble ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

If everything in our solar system formed from the same solar nebula, why do the planets have different compositions? Herbert WichTitusville, Florida To better understand why the planets have variable ...

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...