James Webb: Not Just for Distant Exoplanets The James Webb Space Telescope was expected to deliver groundbreaking revelations ...

Many cosmic images don't quite look like the nicknames astronomers bestow upon them. Case in point: the Crab Nebula. The ...

Discover Webb's stunning new image of the Lion Nebula, revealing the cosmic beauty left by a dying star and insights into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a purple and blue cloud of gas in deep space The strange behavior of the Tarantula Nebula and its continued existence could be the ...

Have you ever started something that lasted a lifetime? Charles Messier found a whitish smudge near Zeta (ζ) Tauri on Aug. 28, 1758, while following a comet he had discovered two weeks earlier. But ...

The glowing nebula IC 2220, nicknamed the Toby Jug Nebula owing to its resemblance to an old English drinking vessel, is a rare astronomical find. This reflection nebula, located about 1200 ...

Astronomers have unveiled a spectacular new photo of cosmic "bullets" slicing through thick gas clouds at supersonic speeds in the famed Orion nebula. The so-called Orion bullets are actually enormous ...

Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source of power for the light it is emitting. Called an “enormous Lyman-alpha nebula” (ELAN), it is the ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Tucked ...

William Herschel first observed NGC 7635 in 1787 as a glow around the magnitude 8.7 star SAO 20575 (cataloged earlier as BD+60°2522). In a telescope, the Bubble Nebula looks more like a comma because ...