As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look largely the same across an average human lifetime, there are dramatic examples ...

Out in the cosmic landscape, planetary nebulas would offer the perfect Halloween doors to knock on. They're spooky tricksters ...

Astronomers have spotted a ghostly visitor soaring through the Milky Way - a winged cloud of gas and dust that looks like a ...

The outline of a nebula bat formed from glowing interstellar clouds | Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2 Astronomers have captured the glowing "wings" of a vast nebula shaped like a bat, unfurling in ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured a nebula, resembling a bat and located 10,000 light-years away, spreading its wings in the Milky Way's galactic plane.

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...