A new image of the Helix Nebula taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) shows an unprecedented level of detail within the planetary nebula, telling us more about its ...

Korean researchers have uncovered the secret to how planets and comets could form far from a star — considered a mystery until now — by finding the key in a substance named crystalline silicates as ...

Winter weather has forced the annual 2-day event which draws thousands to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to be ...

A sizzling exoplanet caught by the James Webb Space Telescope is shedding its atmosphere and leaving behind two gigantic helium tails.

Astronomers have been given a new and incredibly detailed look at a very familiar astronomical object thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The new JWST image shows the Helix Nebula, the ...

The sheer scale of Carrazco-Gaxiola’s survey, titled “An All-Sky Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of More Than 2,100 K Dwarfs ...

Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

It's one of astronomy's great mysteries: how did black holes get so big, so massive, so quickly. An answer to this cosmic ...

Here's a cool website you should check out if you love astronomy and want to see what the Hubble and Webb Space Telescopes ...

Within the image, thick clouds of cold hydrogen gas arrange themselves into ridges and wispy filaments. The deep red tones ...

Solar prominences occur when the sun’s plasma, flowing along the magnetic field lines that the sun creates, forms a loop into space along the edge of the sun’s disk. When a prominence becomes ...