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 ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.

Astronomer using Hubble discovers "young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small ...

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 ...

While the Perseverance rover continues to capture amazing images of the Martian surface, we also look back at Voyager 2's ...

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

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Finding new worlds out there is pretty exciting, right? Scientists are getting really good at spotting planets around other ...

Since its founding in 1958, NASA has occupied a special place in the American imagination. With immense successes such as the ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of ...

NASA faces strategic decisions and competition in a rapidly changing space exploration industry dominated by commercial ...