Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

The Necklace Nebula, formed by two doomed stars, glows with bright gas clumps like a cosmic diamond ring. Located 15,000 light-years away in the Sagitta constellation, it shines as a stunning ...

This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...

The emission nebula, known as Sh2-284, is an immense region of gas and dust that fuels new star formation. It lacks elements ...

Pairs of planetary-mass objects, floating freely in space, intrigue scientists with their nature and origin. With masses ...

New connections discovered between the Sun's photosphere and CI chondrites meteorites, providing clues about the origin of materials.

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared ... unless they were formed as planets and then ejected out of a planetary system." The faintness of brown dwarfs makes them ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the ... JWST hunted for free-floating planetary mass bodies that have ...

This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there. But it isn’t stars which researchers were interested in when they looked to the nebula — in this case ...