The death of a star is usually thought to be a violent and hostile ...

An international team of astronomers has employed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe a complex planetary nebula known as NGC 6302. The observations, detailed in a paper published Feb. 25 ...

Webb has captured the haunting “Exposed Cranium” nebula—an otherworldly cloud shaped by a dying star that looks remarkably like a brain inside a skull.

According to astronomers, these types of aging stars produce large amounts of cosmic dust and spread it into space.

For the first time, astronomers have discovered dry ice (carbon dioxide ice) in a planetary nebula, shedding new light on the ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble and Euclid telescopes provide a new image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, showing detailed structures and previously unused data for updated views of NGC 6543.

The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 4,400 light-years away in the constellation Draco.

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope study faint brown dwarfs in the RCW 36 nebula to understand substellar populations and the initial mass function in a young massive cluster.

Chinese official calls for prioritizing Neptune orbiter mission A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented ...

It is located about 25 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.