In a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula — the dying gasps of one of the hottest stars in the sky, which could hold clues to Earth's origins.

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...

Scientists say NGC 7027 began expanding around 600 years ago. Since then, it has shed shells of gas clearly seen in blue.

According to NASA, nebulas are giant clouds of dust and gases in space. They form from an explosion of a dying star or where ...

The Africa Nebula is a supernova remnant linked to Circinus X-1, an X-ray-emitting neutron star. It also surrounds the companion star that Cir X-1 orbits.

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

Astronomers have used several telescopes to take a new picture of a distant pulsar and its surrounding nebula shaped like a ...

The Veil Nebula, located about 2,400 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, is the visible portion of that larger ...

Astronomers have taken a fresh look at the famous “Hand of God” pulsar, combining X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra Observatory with new radio observations from the Australia Telescope Compact Array. At ...

In 2009, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes ...

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