Astronomers have long searched for life within a rather narrow ring around a star, the "habitable zone," where a planet ...

Thursday’s scheduled launch will be the 17th crewed Blue Origin flight to ferry passengers into space. The previous mission, NS-37, was successfully completed just over a month ago on Dec. 20, 2025.

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

Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

Four astronauts are about to fly around the moon on NASA's Artemis 2 mission, and you can join them by adding your name to the mission. Here's how.

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

Human activity continues to expand ever further into wild areas, throwing ecology out of balance. But what begins as an ...

A closer look at the Helix Nebula reveals how dying stars shed material, shape space, and hint at the distant future of our own Sun.

Blooming seas were recorded around the Chatham Islands in January 2026, after satellite images showed large swirls of colour ...

The first solar eclipse of 2026 will be a rare annular eclipse forming a stunning ‘Ring of Fire’. While it will be visible in ...