The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

(Neither Titan nor the Crab Nebula are visible to the unaided eye, but with a dark sky and cooperative weather, you can find them with binoculars.) The explosion stripped off the star's outer ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully unravelled many secrets by pushing the boundaries of astronomy and cosmology closer to the beginning of time.

M2-9 is a striking example of a "butterfly" or a bipolar planetary nebula. Another more revealing name might be the "Twin Jet Nebula." If the nebula is sliced across the star, each side of it ...

Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project captured this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion.

This nebula was first cataloged in 1888 by the Danish ... including one that appears to mark the chicken's right eye. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night ...