The Vela Pulsar is a neutron star that's part of the Vela Supernova Remnant in the ... a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA ...

the rapidly spinning pulsar at its core. Hubble Spins a Web Into a Giant Red Spider Nebula The Spider Nebula lies about 10,000 light-years away from Earth and is a site of active star formation.

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of these cosmic explosions, and we’re counting down the top 10 ...

Astronomers have found evidence for what might be a planet with about half the mass of the Moon orbiting the pulsar PSR ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

NASA plans to fly two rockets through active auroras and study the unique ribbons of light that dance across the Alaskan ...

An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace could be caused by a ...

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

Star formation in the early universe was a vigorous process that created gigantic stars. Called Population III stars, these ...

The bright glow of the globular cluster NGC 2031 shines in the Mensa constellation within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. In the Trapezium embedded cluster ...

A rare breed of star recently discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope spins faster by feeding on its stellar siblings.

A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...