"One thing popped out as clear as anything, this previously unknown 'bar' of ionized iron atoms, in the middle of the ...

A strange, elongated cloud of metal has appeared at the heart of one of the sky’s most familiar dead stars, and it may be the ...

A famous night-sky object has yielded a surprise: a narrow, bar-shaped cloud made of highly ionized iron. The discovery comes ...

Astronomers using JWST discover an ancient supernova from the first billion years of the universe ...

Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.

A new mystery about the colorful Ring Nebula has again caught attention in space.A huge bar of iron has been discovered ...

A newly spotted feature inside a dying star’s remains is unsettling scientists, not because it is dramatic, but because it ...

NASA spots a rare, glowing gourd-like structure racing at one million mph—then watches it transform in the blink of an eye ...

Planetary nebulae represent a brief, yet illuminating, phase in the evolution of low- to intermediate-mass stars. These glowing shells of ionised gas are shed in the late stages of stellar development ...

The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble’s longest-running optical camera, ...