Fall evenings are perfect for astrophotography because the cool weather keeps those pesky mosquitoes away, which gives me ...

The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula located about 2,030 light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is estimated to be around 8,000 years old. The Horsehead Nebula, located in the ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Nebulae exist in various types, including emission, reflection, and dark nebulae. The Orion Nebula is among the most famous and easily visible examples. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured ...

From the colourful Lagoon Nebula, to the mesmerizing Butterfly nebula, check out these 7 amazing images of nebulae captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Nebulas are mostly made up of dust, hydrogen, helium, and ionised gases. There are four types of nebulae: planetary nebulas, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is shedding light on mysteries surrounding brown dwarfs, following decades of questions ...

Nature loves to break the neat little boxes we use to classify stuff. In astronomy, one of these box breakers is brown dwarfs. These objects have both stellar and planetary qualities, existing on the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered brown dwarfs at the heart of planet-forming disks in the Orion nebula. The discovery could help reveal if these "failed stars" can have planets.

Soon after its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope revealed some of the clearest direct photographs of protoplanetary disks through observations of the Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula ...

A new study by an international team of researchers, including a Penn State astronomer, used NASA's James Webb Space ...