Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harboring ...

Learn how Webb’s infrared view of Orion revealed buried protostars, violent jets, and disks of gas and dust that could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space once again has proved itself to be awe-striking in Tuesday's NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. The image, taken by Raul ...

The new Hubble image reveals detailed light and shadow in the Egg Nebula's stardust cloud The Egg Nebula is about 1,000 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation and hides a central star It is the ...

I don’t mean for the blog to be all Hubble all week, but c’mon. Just look at that picture! Phil Plait Phil Plait writes Slate’s Bad Astronomy blog and is an astronomer, public speaker, science ...

A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The dead star lies at the center of the ...

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have imaged a giant molecular cloud being shredded by howling stellar winds and searing radiation, exposing a group of towering dust pillars harboring ...