The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

The New Year of 2026 began at the stroke of midnight today, and four minutes later the brightest star in the sky, Sirius in ...

The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will offer a varied plethora of programming to start off the new year.

Badr, taken from San Jose, Bradley, and Death Valley; California The Trapezium Cluster at the heart of the Orion Nebula (M42) ...

The last quarter moon is on January 10, and new moon is on January 18. The waxing crescent moon is just above Saturn on ...

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

Orion the Hunter is such a great constellation, and I have to believe many stargazers share the same opinion. Even if you’re ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nebulae are some of the most breathtaking sights in the universe — vast clouds of gas and dust ...

As the Orion, the world’s most advanced deep-space capsule, counts down to circumnavigating the Moon, that trek could be the forerunner to a cascade of Mars missions in the 2030s. Shown here is a ...