The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

When you take a look deep into the night sky, Venus might look like it's noticeably yellow. Here's the science behind why it appears that way.

In a stunning astronomical discovery, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a spectacular image of HH 30, a ...

Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...

Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

This precision will facilitate the creation of artificial solar eclipses, providing unprecedented views of the solar corona. Credit: ESA-P. Carril ESA’s groundbreaking Proba-3 mission has successfully ...

But in reality, our Solar System’s disk is far from flat ... Our s is thought to have emerged from a nebula—a gargantuan cloud of dust and gas—about 4.6 billion years ago.

On Feb. 22, 2022, a gigantic solar prominence formed on the surface ... remnants of a long-dead star in this image of the Veil Nebula captured by astrophotographer Miguel Claro.

Construction of a giant celestial solar farm is underway in China, with a scale comparable to creating a "Three Gorges Dam project above the Earth". The solar farm, which would be launched into ...

Sometimes, the very same clouds that form a supernova-remnant nebula serve as ready material for the formation of new stars. (That's how our own Solar System formed: out of the ashes of a ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...