The outer space world ... by NASA Hubble space telescope: This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust that looks a little like a caterpillar is a newborn star – a protostar.

Pettit made a name for himself as an astrophotographer after sharing his image 'Lightning Bugs' in 2012 showing beautiful ...

burning the last of its hydrogen and causing the star's outer layers to expand outward. At this stage, the star becomes a large red giant. Because a red giant is so large, its heat spreads out and ...

This week, NASA released the first image from the Europa Clipper spacecraft's voyage. The image is a mosaic of a star field, created from three shots the solar-powered orbiter captured in December of ...

Learn how these advances in instrumentation could provide a better understanding of solar winds and improve space weather ...

NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars that has been colored and rotated ... Chandra launched in 1999 from Space Shuttle Columbia.

A star of the stage and screen ... who earned a Golden Globe for her role in the 1950s sci-fi classic It Came from Outer Space, has died. She was 97. Rush's daughter, Claudia Cowan, who is ...