A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...

Here are some of the most beautiful pictures of the nebula, which were taken with the help of NASA's James Webb telescope.

A colossal bar of iron hidden inside the Ring Nebula may be the ghostly remains of a planet destroyed by a dying star.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...

New instrument on William Herschel Telescope spots previously unknown strip of ionised iron atoms at the heart of Ring Nebula ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...

A twisting black hole jet is pushing gas across a star-forming galaxy, revealing how black holes can reshape disks from the ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...

"WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting ...

While late M-stars are the easiest places to find Earth-sized planets, a new study suggests they are biological dead ends where animal life may never find enough fuel to evolve.

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have uncovered direct evidence that the red supergiant ...