Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rosette Nebula blossoms in deep space, captured in this wonderful image taken by the high-resolution Dark Energy Camera, ...

The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for five long years—an infrared photo of two dying stars we'd requested from ...

Roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth, a dying star is producing temperatures colder than the void of deep space itself. The Boomerang Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula in the constellation Centaurus, has ...

A pulsar is a type of neutron star with a strong magnetic field that spins incredibly fast.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Hong Kong/S. Zhang et al.; Radio: ATNF/CSIRO/ATCA; H-alpha: UK STFC/Royal Observatory Edinburgh; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk A glowing hand stretches across ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look largely the same across an average human lifetime, there are dramatic examples ...

NASA, Donald Walter/South Carolina State University/Paul Scowen/ Brian Moore/Arizona State University A glimpse up at the night sky will reveal a seemingly endless landscape of twinkling stars, but ...

This image of the Helix Nebula from the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view of the planetary nebula, with a box highlighting the smaller field of view from the ...

This week I want to take you to the maternity ward of stellar birth. Since stars, including our sun, are basically huge balls ...