At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer is ready for a planned flyby of Venus on Sunday after the agency fixed ...

Located about 3,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, there exists a planetary nebula known as the 'Butterfly Nebula' (NGC 6302). It is renowned for its unique double-wing ...

Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot. Thanks to NGC 6302’s extreme stellar energy, the ...

In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is one of the most famous scientific instruments that has ever existed. It’s given the world an ...

Clues about how worlds like Earth may have formed have been found buried at the heart of a spectacular 'cosmic butterfly'.

The first galaxies in long-wavelength infrared light have been observed for the first time, thanks to images captured with ...

Check out 10 stunning new deep space images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, revealing galaxies, nebulae, and shining ...

Two more of NASA's space telescopes got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar interloper that captured the world's ...

Transmissions between Earth and our own spacecraft could tell us where to look for potential alien transmissions.

A team of scientists has re-examined the Wow! signal's data with modern techniques and found that it could be even stranger ...