The global scientific community, a study says, should prepare for when humanity detects signs of extraterrestrial ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States, in collaboration with the European Space Agency and other international organizations, has captured a breathtaking cosmic ...

A few days ago, while browsing an astronomy forum late at night, I stumbled upon an image that nearly startled me awake — have you ever seen a square nebula? Not the kind that is roughly square with ...

The Nebula Award! It’s like a Hugo Award, but slightly less prestigious. Don’t let that fool you into thinking that a Nebula Award winning novel is only “second best.” Think of the Nebula as Hugo’s ...

These breathtaking photographs are the winning entries of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards.

Scientists say the James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedented look inside a butterfly nebula, revealing matter around a dying star. The international space community, consisting of NASA, ...

A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...

The Nebula Award – it’s like the little brother of the Hugo Award! And like a little brother in the shadow of an old sibling, the Nebula Award has something to prove. While some the books picked for ...

3I/ATLAS first made news in July when scientists confirmed it as the third-ever observed interstellar interloper in our solar system. The space object further attracted the public's fascination again ...

August's full moon, the sturgeon moon, will be at its peak Aug. 9. The Perseids meteor shower peaks Aug. 12-13 but the full moon may make them hard to see. One of the easiest planetary nebulas to ...