Running Chicken Nebula is a stellar nursery located in the constellation Centaurus. See a 3D animation created from VLT Survey imagery of these stunning regions of space. Credit: Space.com | animation ...

It is the most iconic image ever taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope. The ‘Pillars of Creation’ showing the Eagle Nebula, taken in 1995, revealed never-before-seen detail of the light from a ...

The widely photographed and heavily studied Orion Nebula is nearly 300 light-years closer to Earth than previously thought, according to a new study. The finding, detailed in the Oct. 10 issue of ...

A little over 2000 light years away, toward the constellation of Cepheus, is a place where stars are being born. It’s a nebula, a gas cloud, and it’s called IC 1396. It’s monstrous, well over a ...