The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases.

The galaxy filling the frame in this NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month is NGC 2566, a spiral ...

A team from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory converts NASA space data to sound, creating sonifications for more accessible science discovery.

This image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows Spiral galaxy NGC 628 ... This star-forming region is located about 390 light-years from Earth. This image of Nebula NGC 1333 shows a nearby ...

Weeks after NASA's 1999 Hubble repair, the Hubble Heritage Project captured this image of NGC 1999, a nebula in Orion, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a ...

Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302): Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across ...

Travel about 2,500 light-year away in the constellation Vela to see James Webb Space Telescope stunning view of NGC 3132, the ...

Nov. 4, 2024 — Stem cells grown in microgravity aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have unique qualities that could one day help accelerate new biotherapies and heal complex disease ...

If you’re new to constellation identification, the best way to locate Taurus is to wait until the easily recognized ...

Fresh corroboration of the perplexing observation that the universe is expanding more rapidly than expected has scientists ...

A colorful, swirling atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. James Webb reveals the secrets of planetary formation. A barred ...