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.

After one such explosion blows a star's outer layers into space, the core remains—but it no longer produces nuclear fusion. With no outward pressure from fusion to counterbalance gravity's ...

One of the youngest supernova remnants in our galaxy, Cassiopeia A glows with the energy of a star’s final breath.

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 ...

HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals ...

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

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 ...

On World Photography Day, Business Insider India is sharing the top 10 crazy images of explosions, gas clouds and new stars being born ... capture the wonders of outer space with its lens.

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

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 ...