To see the Crab Nebula for yourself, you'll have to wait until around midnight local daylight time, after it has sufficiently ...

Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surrounded by gas and dust as it heads ...

Astronomers estimate that the universe could contain up to one septillion stars that's a one followed by 24 zeros. Our Milky ...

(Web Desk) - The first ever close-up picture of a star outside of our galaxy has shown that it is wrapped in a strange structure. The image shows a star named WOH G64 that is surrounded by gas and ...

Formation of new stars in clusters of galaxies is one of the most captivating sights in the Universe. Check out these ...

A new animated map sheds light on the superhot "zombie star" at the heart of a nebula leftover from a distant supernova witnessed by astronomers in 1181. The remains of the stellar explosion are ...

On Sunday November 23, 1924, 100 years ago this month, readers perusing page six of the New York Times would have found an ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory captured a pulsar in the Guitar Nebula living out its rock star ...

A stellar odd couple 700 light-years away is creating a chaotically beautiful display of colorful, gaseous filaments. The Hubble captured the pair, named R Aquarii, and their symbiotic interactions.

Think of the OB’s as stellar bullies that prevented their ... that the objects are simply bright background stars poking through the nebula, and nothing mysterious at all. Kevin Luhman, an ...