Nebulae are gigantic clouds of gas and dust that exist in space between stars. Check out 7 mesmerizing photos of this cosmic ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the Orion Nebula, highlighting two young protostars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153. These prot ...

Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space Telescope image. Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars ...

There’s really no reason you can’t use binoculars to look into space – and in fact astronomers have been working on doing so ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the northern hemisphere).

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42). Just 1,500 light-years away ...

February stargazing is fantastic for many reasons, but this year there’s a one-two-three punch of bright planets adding to ...

Megeath Two young stars shine bright in the dusty depths of the Orion Nebula in a new Hubble Space ... over 2,000 times wider than the distance between Earth and the sun, falling in on the pair ...

The four planet-strong "planet parade" currently visible to the naked eye in the night sky for a short time after sunset will ...

With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...