Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This new image of a portion of the Helix Nebula from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope highlights comet-like knots, fierce stellar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image of the Helix Nebula from the Visible and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (left) shows the full view of the planetary ...

What might the solar system resemble if the sun were to shed its outer atmosphere, leaving its core behind? A fresh perspective on the Helix Nebula, an iconic planetary nebula known as NGC 7293, using ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the possible eventual fate of our own sun and planetary system. In Webb's high-resolution look, the ...

NASA's James Webb telescope captured a new image of the Helix Nebula in detail. The Helix Nebula is 650 light-years away from Earth. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured mesmerizing new images ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X-ray ...

All good things must come to an end, and that is even true for planets. Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to ...

The United States’ independence day is over for the year, but a new image of one of Earth’s cosmic neighbors reveals an explosive spectacle. One of the closest nebulae to us displays dramatic firework ...

The Helix Nebula, NGC 7293, is not only one of the most interesting and beautiful planetary nebulae; it is also one of the closest nebulae to Earth, at a distance of only 710 light years (219 pc) away ...