What we're seeing in the nebula is, in a sense, a moment of death that lays the groundwork for a new birth. The dying star ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

If you could teleport Earth to any place in the Universe, what would you want to look at in the night sky?

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our own Sun.

Smack dab in the Ring Nebula, astronomers have stumbled upon a massive bar-shaped structure of iron that had previously ...

Astronomers studying the famous Ring Nebula have uncovered an unexpected and puzzling feature: a massive cloud of iron atoms ...

Astronomers from Cardiff University, as well as University College London, detected the iron bar using a new telescope ...

Scientists warn a strange iron bar in a distant nebula could reveal Earth's fate when the Sun dies, offering a grim look at ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

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" ...

A newly spotted feature inside a dying star’s remains is unsettling scientists, not because it is dramatic, but because it ...