The Carina Nebula sits roughly 7,500 light-years from Earth. (Image credit: ESO/G. Hüdepohl) Seeing that far into space can be tricky, even when gazing at one of our galaxy's brightest objects ...

Eta Carinae has been exploding for nearly 200 years, and now we're firing lasers at it.

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...

In a dazzling new photo, the James Webb Space Telescope zooms in on the Butterfly Nebula — the dying gasps of one of the hottest stars in the sky, which could hold clues to Earth's origins.

Scientists say NGC 7027 began expanding around 600 years ago. Since then, it has shed shells of gas clearly seen in blue.

At about 1,700 years old, MSH 15-52, sometimes called the "cosmic hand" or " hand of God " for its unusual shape, is one of ...

A new study has revealed that a supernova shock wave traveling through the Cassiopeia A nebula is not expanding as evenly as it should be.

Despite being studied extensively, determining whether the Nebula was likely the result of an electron-capture supernova was tricky -- largely because the explosion was almost a thousand years ago.

Previous observations of Pa 30 revealed a white dwarf star at the center of the nebula. The superdense object is all that remains of the exploding star that lit up the night sky 843 years ago.

According to this theory, the shock wave would have injected material from the exploding star into the solar nebula. Scientists have previously detected potential evidence of this pollution in ...