A recent snapshot by the James Webb Space Telescope captured the structure and shape of NGC 6072, which was described as 'a ...

Venus blazes near Zeta Tauri, recreating the sight astronomers saw in 1054 when the Crab Nebula’s progenitor star went ...

Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing ...

NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy about 100 million light-years away, which is close in space terms. It has a strange shape and a golden haze coming from its center. This is because it's merging with a ...

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

For the study, the researchers analyzed data from NASA’s now-retired Kepler Space Telescope regarding the orbital shapes, also known as eccentricities, on 1,646 exoplanets whose sizes range between ...

By studying the shape of LBN 483 and the way that shape arises from outflows emanating from the protostars, and plugging those details into numerical simulations of star formation so that they can ...