In an awe-inspiring image recently released by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), the Hubble Space Telescope has ...

The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation.

A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the ...

We think of stars ... born. NASA affectionately calls it a “Space Butterfly,” but in reality it’s a pair of massive gas clouds. Its official name is Westerhout 40 (W40), and it’s a nebula.

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar ...

This time, astronomers have used new processing techniques to draw out additional details in celebration of the telescope's ...

The Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region, shines bright with new stars and protostars in this NASA image. A protostar, HH 34, is captured in this image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that ...

How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs? The Flame Nebula, part of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, is a ...

This week marks 35 years since Hubble first left Earth aboard the space shuttleDiscovery. Instead of receiving birthday ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

It is a well-known stellar nursery with vast swaths of cosmic dust and gas from which new stars are born. The nebula is famously known for the iconic "Pillars of Creation" image taken by the ...