Emission nebulae are glowing, spread-out clouds of ionized gas that shine with their own light. In this image of NGC 2313, the bright star V565 at the center lights up a silvery curtain of gas and ...

The beloved Hubble Space Telescope is reaching its 35th anniversary, and over the years it has taken some stunning images.

Dark Science Fiction Deep Space Nebula with White Dwarf... Dark red nebula with center protostar sun as white dwarf. Artistic concept 3d animation of exploded alien galaxy and cosmos space in bright ...

Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...

NASA's vast archive of science data, over 100 petabytes and counting, is proving to be a timeless treasure trove for new ...

The cluster, full of more than 2,500 newborn stars that blaze blue in the Hubble image, is in a galaxy with far fewer heavy chemical substances than the Milky Way. It's mostly made of hydrogen and ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.

NGC 4826, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy, Messier 64, or M64, is a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, famous for its dark band of dust across ...

Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...

Early morning risers who head out to work and school before sunrise are likely beginning to notice an extremely bright star-like ... Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches ...