While it's easy to romanticize space as an escape to a pristine frontier where people will float weightlessly among the stars ...

James Webb Space Telescope reveals how Helix Nebula's stars end their life, showing colourful nebulae formed by dying stars ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

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Cosmic rays from supernovas will help secure the supply of crucial minerals.

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

The chemical foundations of life could be found in the frigid pockets of molecular clouds that exist in the space between stars, rather than on any planetary bodies. At the University of Aarhus in ...

New data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows where crystalline silicates form around young stars and how disk outflows transport them to colder, outer regions.

Organisers are encouraging people to craft lanterns with aliens, rockets, galaxies and stars.

Recently, a group of scientists created a detailed map of this space, showing that the bubble is lopsided in both shape and temperature, while also uncovering ...

It may be one of the most iconic sights in the night sky, but astronomers have never seen the Helix Nebula like this before.