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 ...

Bow shocks are crescent-shaped structures formed by the friction of solar wind coming from a star and the interstellar medium, the space between ... This small planetary nebula, like others ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space ... The clouds of pink and blue consist of high-speed matter ejected from the young star as it is still ...

sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of a double-star system, has formed a cosmic hourglass — and the James Webb Space Telescope imaged ...

A pair of newly released images from the Hubble Space Telescope afford us Earthlings impressive views of two distant celestial bodies. They're both shots of planetary nebulae, and each is brimming ...

Deep Blue Aerospace is based in Jiangsu Province and secured strategic funding in August. The firm is not alone in its pursuit of suborbital tourism; CAS Space, a spinoff of the Chinese Academy of ...