When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.

Scientists have been searching for water beyond Earth for a long time. It's vital to life as we understand it. New research says water emerged earlier than expected. Just 200 million years after ...

Hubble’s image of NGC 5530 reveals a patchy spiral galaxy with a deceptively bright center caused by a star near the Earth. An amateur’s keen eye caught a supernova there, right as its light completed ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, Hubble once again lifts ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

a striking feature within the Carina Nebula, located 8,000 light-years away. Hubble's image showcases a section of the Veil Nebula, known as NGC 6960 or the Witch's Broom Nebula, part of a supernova ...

One of the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbors, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), is on display in a breathtaking image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Captured with Hubble’s Wide Field ...