Video: Haunting new image of the Cone Nebula - a Milky Way 'star-factory' that sits 2,500 light-years from Earth - makes it appear like a mythological creature The European Space Observatory ...

Astronomers say that the rocky planet is located 41 light years away ... Some 2,600 light-years from Earth, the nebula was born from a dying star that expelled its outer layers into space.

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...

Rocks that escaped the pull of planets were left as asteroids, scattered through the solar system without ... We can unpick the 4.5 billion year journey from the solar nebula, to the protoplanetary ...

At about 2,500 light-years from Earth, the Cone Nebula is relatively close to us, which makes it easy to observe. To find the Cone Nebula, scientists turned their telescope towards the Monoceros ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

Our Sun, the celestial body that has nurtured life on Earth for billions of years, is not eternal. This massive ball of gas ...