4/25 Helix Nebula: The Helix Nebula in Aquarius, nicknamed "God's Eye", is a favourite among amateur astronomers for its vivid colours and striking resemblance to a giant cosmic eyeball. (Image: NASA) ...

As the universe expands, it feels like it must be spreading out from some initial point. But a physicist explains why that’s not how it works. Hint: space-time is involved.

An international team of scientists has unveiled the largest and most detailed map of the universe ever created using the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing nearly 800,000 galaxies stretching ...

In today’s universe, forming water is also quite easy: All one needs to stick two run-of-the-mill hydrogen atoms to one oxygen atom in a sufficiently cold patch of an already frigid universe.

The Cat’s Eye is a young planetary, at perhaps 1,000 years. In part because of this, it shows the multiple stages of a planetary nebula well.

Although we’re still searching for observational evidence of dark matter, scientists haven’t been able to account for about 15 percent of the regular matter in the universe with just stars ...

The Helix Nebula stands out due to its proximity to Earth and its distinctive appearance, often likened to a giant eye in the sky. Spanning about 2.5 light-years across, it is relatively large ...

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on March 4, 2025, the composite photo shows a potentially destructive white ...

At the center of the nebula is the culprit of this mystery: the small, dim remaining core of a star called a white dwarf. It is this white dwarf, named WD 2226-210 and located just 650 light-years ...

Called the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), the collaboration released its first analysis of 6 million galaxies and quasars last year and has now added more data, bringing the count to ...

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its 380,000th birthday represent a snapshot of the universe as a newborn.