Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

A n unusual group of stars in the Orion constellation have revealed their secrets. FU Orionis, a double star system, first caught astronomers' attention in 1936 when the central star suddenly ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The Orion constellation. The main stars of this constellation are connected by straight blue lines and some of them are labelled by their name. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square.

Astronomers say that of the thousands of stars visible to us in the northern hemisphere, Sirius is the brightest of them all.

Our Solar System, labelled as the Sun in this image, has passed through different regions of the galaxy. One of those regions ...