Astronomers have found an enormous, glowing blob of gas in the distant universe, with no obvious source of power for the light it is emitting. Called an "enormous Lyman-alpha nebula" (ELAN), it is the ...

The Tibet Air Shower Array is located about five kilometers (3.1 miles) above sea level, and this high altitude makes it an ideal spot to gather data on the subatomic particles that shower the Earth ...

Hubble has captured a mesmerizing photo of a cosmic nursery found in Orion. The reflection nebula, which is known as NGC 1999, looks eerily similar to a keyhole. The nebula itself, the European Space ...

NASA's Picture of the Day has gifted us with a breathtaking cosmic delicacy: The Prawn Nebula, officially known as IC 4628. Nestled in the tail of the nebula-rich constellation Scorpius, this ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first close-up image of the cosmos, offering an extraordinary new perspective on the Trifid Nebula (Messier 20), located 5,000 light-years away in the ...