Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The NGC 2660 open cluster imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Hundreds of stars sparkle against the dark backdrop of space in a ...

This phase only lasts a few hundred years.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

NASA shared images of the Egg Nebula as the star inside it is dying. #hubblespace #dyingstar #eggnebula #spaceexploration ...

When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long. Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space ...

At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star.

A star about 1,360 light-years away from Earth, named FU Orionis, is twice as hot as astronomers previously suspected, according to recent data from the Hubble Space Telescope. In fact, scientists ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has seen a young planet whirling around a red dwarf star "getting the hiccups." The agency said the exoplanet is so close to its parent star, AU Microscopii, that is ...

This week’s image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows two galaxies that are a hotbed of star formation. The pair, known together as Arp 303 or individually as IC 563 on the bottom right and IC 564 ...

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like star’s death just 1,000 light-years away. Hidden inside a dense cocoon of dust, ...