Many astronomical sights have received cool nicknames, but it’s hard to compete with the “cosmic fire of creation.” Better known as the Orion Nebula (and officially dubbed Messier 42), the nebula is ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

In the vast and every-expanding universe, most galaxies resemble our own. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, with a flat rotating disk that contains gas, dust and thousands of stars. However, ...

Astronomers have discovered a “cosmic ring of fire” – a galaxy shaped like a gigantic donut. This type of galaxy is extremely rare, especially for its age, and it was likely caused by a collision with ...

An orange figure rises from a cosmic fire in a new image created using data collected by a telescope tasked with mapping the first light emitted in the universe. While the figure may look "sprite-like ...

Sometime in the early stages of the universe, two galaxies violently collided to create a massive and rare ring galaxy. Lurking some 11 billion light years from Earth, the gargantuan galaxy produced ...

Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy -- described as a 'cosmic ring of fire' -- as it existed 11 billion years ago. Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type ...