From auroras at 36,000 feet to comet flybys and eclipses, these are the standout images our readers shared with Space.com in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the Ring Nebula as a glowing green and purple eye, presenting the familiar astronomical object in an altogether new light. Aside from its stunning aesthetic ...

Budget-friendly, ultra-portable projectors may not offer the stellar picture quality of their more expensive brethren, but they make up for it with portability and simplicity. We picked the $559 Anker ...

The sun will die, eventually. Like any star, the one at the center of our solar system is not meant to live forever. Eventually, it will use up all of the nuclear fuel in its core and explode, ...

Before I get into design, even though the name of the projector is the Nebula Solar Portable, don’t be fooled into thinking it has anything to do with being solar rechargeable. That out of the way… ...

The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a quiet patch of sky into a spectral scene, revealing a so‑called “Ghost Nebula” where a dying star is shedding its outer layers into space. The ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of the Ring Nebula, also known as M57, which is a planetary nebula formed by the glowing remains of a sun-like star. The nebula is located ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this interstellar material ...

Some 3,000 light years away, shimmering layers of gas formed an almost perfect sphere around the faintly glowing, burned-out core of a dead star. The result looks like a giant crystal ball floating in ...

Approximately 90 percent of all stars in the universe will turn into a planetary nebula, which could also happen to the sun when it dies in about 5 billion years. A team of international astronomers ...

LIVERMORE, Calif.– The oxygen and magnesium content of some of the oldest objects in the universe are giving clues to the lifetime of the solar nebula, the mass of dust and gas that eventually led to ...

Black holes are just one of myriad marvels in outer space. In this feature, learn the difference between pulsars and quasars, antimatter and dark matter, brown dwarfs and white dwarfs, and many other ...