NASA has images of both the Spider Nebula and the Red Spider Nebula. The Spider Nebula is a star-forming region, while the Red Spider Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. The ...

The NBA is back from its All-Star hiatus with a loaded weekend. The Knicks, Celtics, Cavs and Timberwolves each get two national TV games.

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

Venus is now at its almost unbelievably brightest at a marvelous time when many other (though less radiant) planets and ...

It turns out that one of the most prominent space artists predicted how a strange celestial object would look — 50 years in ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

The new high energy state of matter expanding outwards by spin jets from the two poles of an astronomical black hole, the new ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best “must-see” attractions in the sky, and it’s even more impressive once you get to know ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions in the Pottsville sky, and it is even more impressive once you get ...

Its cosmic corsage tells a story of death and rebirth. Within a few million years — a blink of an eye in the universe’s life — the gas and dust will either become budding young stars and planetary ...