A young star in the constellation Perseus has just rewritten the script for how stars are born. Astronomers mapping its surroundings in three dimensions uncovered an intricate stack of more than 400 ...

This stunning portrait of a star-forming nebula is a throwback to the birth of our own sun, 4.6 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

In the cold dark of the constellation Ophiuchus, a faint, wraithlike shell of gas is quietly advertising the fate that awaits our own Sun. Astronomers call it the Little Ghost Nebula, a planetary ...

A gorgeous nebula turns out to hold a surprise at its center: a pair of stars that don’t match as they should. Researchers looking at the beautiful NGC 6164/6165 nebula were surprised to learn that ...