Binoculars never get enough credit when it comes to stargazing. They don’t have as much light-gathering ability and ...

Orion Nebula: Believed to be the cosmic fire of creation by the Maya of Mesoamerica, Messier 42 blazes brightly in the constellation Orion. This stellar nursery, is only 1,500 light-years away ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...

Trained on the spectacular Flame Nebula, the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes went hunting for the smallest stars in ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system came from that direction." The increased dust from this galactic encounter could have had several effects.

Their binary nature and abundance in certain regions of space, such as the Orion Nebula, suggest an origin different from ... such as the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion constellation.

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

Over 50,000 submissions are made for images on U.S. stamps every year, and out of those, about 40 are turned into real stamps ...

an emission nebula located in the constellation of Orion. This nebula is a busy stellar nursery, with many new stars being formed there. But it isn’t stars which researchers were interested in ...