Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million years ago. This cosmic journey may have altered Earth’s environment, ...

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

The Orion Nebula — where young stars are being actively born — serves as a natural laboratory for uncovering the secrets ...

The Milky Way is one of the biggest in the observable universe: Even if you traveled at the speed of light, it would take 100,000 years to go from one end of our home galaxy to the other.

If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

The Orion constellation ... helping to place it in the context of the Milky Way. "We are inhabitants of the Milky Way," says Alves, "The European Space Agency's Gaia Mission has given us the ...

Earth may have cooled during a close encounter with dense star clouds. Interstellar dust from the Orion region might have shaped our ancient climate.

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini ... away from city lights you’ll see the winter Milky Way stretching from the SSW horizon to the NNE horizon.

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula ... helping to place it in the context of the Milky Way. "We are inhabitants of the Milky Way," says Alves, "The European Space Agency's ...

March 14's Worm Moon will transform into a Blood Moon during a total lunar eclipse, visible in the Americas but not in India, ...