The closest nebula to Earth is the Helix Nebula, which is about 700 light years away from Earth. Space telescopes are invaluable for studying nebulae, which are often faint and dim.

The good news is that the upcoming black moon occurring on Aug. 22 at 11:06 p.m. PT and Aug. 23 at 2:06 a.m. ET will darken ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up in August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and ...

A nebula, such as the two that the Vera C. Rubin Observatory analyzed earlier in 2025, is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be the result of an explosion of a dying ...

A rare black moon will happen tonight Aug. 22-23. Don't worry too much if you miss it, although it won't happen again for ...

According to NASA Space Place, a Nebula can be defined as "a giant cloud of dust and gas in space. Some nebulae (more than one nebula) come from the gas and dust thrown out by the explosion of a ...

An image from NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory shows a glowing hand stretching across the cosmos with its palm and fingers ...