A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new image of the Butterfly Nebula, a grand and graceful cosmic wonder.

The Gemini South telescope is turning 25, and astronomers are celebrating its birthday with a dazzling new image of the ...

The Gemini South telescope in Chile captured this stunning view of NGC 6302, highlighting the nebula’s intricate structure ...

Located 2,500 to 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation, this nebula's unusual shape is a result of its central ...

Hubble’s new image shows the Calabash Nebula’s dying star blasting gas at immense speeds, revealing dramatic lobes, ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. It’s one of the most common words used by astronomers—and ...

One of your nighttime sky targets for the next month or so should be the Helix Nebula in the constellation Aquarius the Water ...

The Red Spider Nebula showcases the beauty of a dying star. NASA’s Hubble shows the nebula in visible light whereas the Webb ...

The image was captured by NIRCam, Webb's primary near-infrared imager, which aims to provide high-resolution imaging and ...

Nebula, the six-year-old fugitive European barn owl, remains on the lam nearly three weeks after hightailing it from a Long Island nature sanctuary. “There have been no credible sightings” in the last ...