This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

A new image released by NASA shows what could be a captivating — and terrifying — event roughly 650 light-years away: a dying ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed a planetary nebula designated ...

Scientists have been receiving X-ray signals from the Helix Nebula for decades, but now they believe it may hide a horrifying ...

When a star comes to the end of its life and dies, it can be an epic and destructive event, throwing out an explosion of heat and light — but it can create stunning new forms as well. A gorgeous new ...

The edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324, found at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula, forms the 'mountains' and 'valleys' spanning this image captured by the James Webb Space ...

Decades of constant X-ray emission from the Helix Nebula’s white dwarf suggest debris from a Jupiter-sized planet steadily rains upon the star.

The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world ...

A new view of the Helix Nebula reveals a dying white dwarf star at the nebula's center. This star's violent eating habits could be responsible for strange X-ray emissions in the region.

How does the birth of stars form a nebula like this ... from the stars (similar to the distance of Voyager 1 from our sun), the magnetic field has a distinct 45-degree counter-clockwise kink.