The Veil Nebula is a colorful, almost psychedelic span of plasma dispersed into space after a star roughly 20 times the size of our own sun exploded about 10,000 years ago. Only a small portion of ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ... firing its engines to head back to Earth. The result? A trippy-looking rocket "nebula." But this isn't a phenomenon unique to the launch ...

The shimmery towers of cosmic dust and gas at the heart of the Eagle Nebula have inspired awe for ... Using data from the ...

Here’s how it works. A nebula is a giant cloud of gas and dust located in the space between stars. Nebula is Latin for "mist, vapor, fog, smoke, exhalation," but in an astronomical context ...

The only difference is that the lens is made from gravity-mangled space-time instead of glass. As a result, researchers have dubbed this trippy effect, gravitational lensing. Albert Einstein first ...

The breathtaking images, taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, were released Tuesday in honor of the 25th anniversary of the telescope's launch into space ... supernova to a nebula thousands ...

The pulsar and its guitar are flying through space, colliding with denser regions of gas. The most energetic particles escape the confines of the Guitar Nebula and fly to the right, creating the ...

The new images of the famous Ring Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are mesmerizing, with glowing rings of gas and wispy trails emanating from the core. We can see it in more clarity ...

the James Webb Space Telescope. One of the first images released from Webb showed the Carina Nebula, a particularly striking structure of dust and gas located in an area of the Milky Way called ...

Located 6,500 light-years away, the Crab Nebula is famous among astronomers for its elaborate and beautiful structure. A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows off the gorgeous nebula ...

NASA recently used its James Webb Space Telescope to capture ethereal, detailed images of the Horsehead Nebula. The nebula, which NASA has called "one of the most distinctive objects in our skies ...