NASA's telescopes and spacecraft have captured stunning images showcasing the universe's beauty and complexity. These visuals ...

Webb's Near-Infrared Camera view shows at least two or three distinct outflows of gas — jets stretching in different directions — plus a disk of compressed material forming along the middle, likely ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

BENGALURU: Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who returned from the International Space Station (ISS) recently after ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion ...

The Orion Nebula Cluster is just 2.5 million years old. It's full of young stars and gas, actively forming new suns. Pleiades is older, around 100 million years.

Recent research has revealed that three well-known star clusters — the Orion Nebula Cluster, the Pleiades, and the Hyades — are linked in a cosmic family tree. Though these clusters appear distinct ...

The latest research results indicate that these famous star clusters represent the different phases of life of one and the ...

The night sky is home to many celestial features named after creatures from Earth’s oceans. Among the stars, you’ll find ...

Miguel Claro captured the Orion Constellation glowing red due to hydrogen gas, as seen from the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve in Portugal.

That is Orion’s Belt. You may also note a couple stars in a hazy area below the belt, which is the Orion Nebula, the closest and most active area of star formation in the Milky Way. Lepus the Hare is ...