NASA spots a rare, glowing gourd-like structure racing at one million mph—then watches it transform in the blink of an eye ...

A huge bar of iron has been discovered lurking inside the iconic Ring Nebula. The structure is enormous, spanning hundreds of ...

Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.

Finding such a large concentration of iron in this precise shape is difficult to explain using existing models of how ...

Astronomers using JWST discover an ancient supernova from the first billion years of the universe ...

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

A newly spotted feature inside a dying star’s remains is unsettling scientists, not because it is dramatic, but because it ...

An international team of astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably ...

In 1993, when the Hubble Space Telescope surveyed the Orion nebula for the first time, its images provided a substantial boost for the argument that stars with planetary systems are commonplace in the ...

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" ...

The Orion Nebula (also known as M42) is one of the brightest nebulae in the night sky even visible to the naked eye; it appears as the middle “star” in the constellation Orion’s sword. This nebula is ...

Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how they develop their dramatic features. Researchers from Rochester Institute of ...