We've known for over 30 years that there are other stellar systems in our galaxy, but we don't have any idea how many there ...

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 ...

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

A century ago, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the universe by proving that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in an ever-expanding cosmos. This breakthrough led to the ...

Sunlight scatters off the mingled dust and sets it aglow. It's brighter nearer the horizon because we're looking more closely ...

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.

Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...