Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Draco.

An 8th-grade astrophotographer from Apple Valley captured a stunning image of the Bubble Nebula, 7,000 light-years away.

Two space telescopes, Hubble and Euclid have observed the Cat's Eye Nebula. The combined observations reveal the remarkable ...

Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...

Two of the world’s most powerful space telescopes have joined forces to produce a stunning new image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one of the most visually complex objects in the known universe. The ...

Under the leadership of Professor Shmuel Bialy, the team used observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure infrared radiation from cosmic rays that had penetrated the giant, cold and ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

The U.S. Postal Service released new Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express stamps this week featuring breathtaking images captured by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) James ...

Scientists have detected a surprisingly hot galaxy cluster dating back to the universe’s infancy. The cluster formed far earlier and burned far hotter than current models predict. Researchers believe ...

A group of astronomers led by Evuda Wempe, a graduate student from the Kaptein Institute in Groningen, discovered a giant ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger Didymos around the sun.