We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Fall evenings are perfect for astrophotography because the cool weather keeps those pesky mosquitoes away, which gives me ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

Helix Nebula: When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. This phase is known as a “planetary nebula" Thanks For ...

Zijlstra said they are similar to features seen in planetary nebulas, or glowing shells of gas around dying stars, such as the Southern Ring Nebula and Ring Nebula that the James Webb Space ...

Fittingly nicknamed the Dark Wolf Nebula, this cosmic cloud was captured in a 283-million-pixel image by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. Located around 5300 ...