A malevolent, screaming skull face. A witch cackling in profile. An all-seeing eye, gazing red and furious from the cosmic depths. Space can be as terrifying as it is beautiful. From nebulas — vast ...

Astronomers were surprised when they discovered what appeared to be a star surrounded by an ultraviolet ring 16 years ago. It became known as the Blue Ring Nebula, located 6,300 light-years away from ...

The latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope turns a quiet patch of sky into a spectral scene, revealing a so‑called ...

Halloween as we know it today has its roots in Samhain, when ancient Celts and Druids in the British Isles marked the end of the harvest and the beginning of longer, darker nights. The last day of ...

Once upon a space-time, a cosmic creation story unfolded: Thousands of never-before-seen young stars spotted in a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Lurking in the depths of the universe some 161,000 light-years away from Earth is a massive tarantula—but unlike the fright-inducing spiders here on Earth, this galactic spider gives birth to new ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a mesmerizing image of NGC 6369, a planetary nebula known as the “Little Ghost Nebula.” Located about 2,000 to 5,000 light-years from Earth, this glowing ...