You can predict the Sun’s distant future by looking far beyond the Solar System. Across the Milky Way, astronomers study ...

What might the solar system resemble if the sun were to shed its outer atmosphere, leaving its core behind? A fresh perspective on the Helix Nebula, an iconic planetary nebula known as NGC 7293, using ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “ Eye of ...

The universe never ceases to amaze, and the latest images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have provided an incredibly detailed glimpse into one of the cosmos' most intriguing structures—the ...

Earth and its neighbors orbit the sun on a relatively flat plane. But what's below this plane, and is anythign below the ...

Scientists from MIT and their colleagues have estimated the lifetime of the solar nebula — a key stage during which much of the solar system evolution took shape. This new estimate suggests that the ...

First spotted in the early 1800s, the celestial object has become one of the most iconic planetary nebulae in the sky, often ...

Observations of the outer Solar System with the Subaru Telescope have discovered new bodies where none were expected. The new objects are likely members of a much larger population waiting to be ...