As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.

An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

The Sh2-46 nebula has been captured by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. The nebula is ...

The European Southern Observatory captured a nebula bat during a survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane. Astronomers have ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured a nebula, resembling a bat and located 10,000 light-years away, spreading its wings in the Milky Way's galactic plane.

Take a tour of the amazing Ring Nebula image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Institute for ...

The most prominent clouds here are RCW 94, which represents the right wing of the bat, and RCW 95, which forms the body, while the other parts of the bat have no official designation. Credit: ...

This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in ...

Readings from the Iris Nebula could reveal where Earth got the complex molecules needed to start life all those millennia ago. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Hanging below the vast cosmic heart is a knot of dust and gas known informally as the Fishhead Nebula, thanks to its vaguely ...

New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping ...