The Crab Nebula (M1) has one of the most famous origin stories around: The light from the supernova that created the nebula ...

A chart is essential for distinguishing it from other faint stars scattered in front of the nebula. A generous 6′ by 4′ across, M1 is expanding at 0.5 percent the speed of light.

Pluto reaches opposition and the Moon waxes to First Quarter as shooting stars streak through the sky this week.

JWST's new image displaces one from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005 as the best picture scientists have of the Crab Nebula. JWST's 6.5-meter (21.3 feet) mirror has six times more collecting ...

Cosmic Catalog The Crab Nebula is known as M1 because it takes first place in the catalog of 18th-century French astronomer and comet-hunter Charles Messier. His catalog consists of over 100 ...

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features an impressive portrait of M1-63, a beautifully captured example of a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scutum ...

Space News reports that this wasn’t the first test conducted by the Nebula-M1, which had successfully reached up to 100 meters (328 feet) in two previous tests.

Enveloped within striking, billowing clouds of gas and dust that form a nebula known as M1-67, sits a bright star named Hen 2-427 (otherwise known as WR 124). This star is just as intense as the ...

image: This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features an impressive portrait of M1-63, a beautifully captured example of a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation of ...