The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...

For over a decade, the NASA telescope has captured various beautiful pictures of space. These pictures show us various ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening up before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space ...

Polar dunes on Mars, swirling clouds on Jupiter, and stunning sights in the night sky on Earth are featured this week. Plus, ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting the sun 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez In death, there can be great beauty. Astronomers ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Vast clouds of ionized atoms ejected from a dying star form the painting-like visage of a ...

After exhausting the nuclear fuel in their cores, stars with a mass of around 0.8 to eight times the mass of our Sun collapse to form dense and hot white dwarf stars. As this process occurs, the dying ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

NASA says they are reexamining nicknames for distant objects in outer space such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae because they are insensitive and could be actively harmful. The Agency says the ...