Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured variable stars and circumstellar disks in NGC 1333, showing protostars, Orion variable stars, and reflection nebulae in the Perseus Molecular Cloud.

A disparate collection of young stellar objects bejewels a cosmic panorama in the star-forming region NGC 1333 in this new ...

January’s episode includes the final consecutive supermoon’s impact on an impressive meteor shower, plus a conversation with ...

The New Year of 2026 began at the stroke of midnight today, and four minutes later the brightest star in the sky, Sirius in Constellation Canis Major — the greater hunting she-dog of Orion —transited ...

The winter sky in the southeast brings some of the brightest stars on display—Orion's Belt, Betelgeuse, Sirius, Aldebaran, and Capella. While the array of bright stars is visible to the naked eye, ...

The James Webb Telescope, the largest telescope ever to be launched into space, is the result of an international collaboration involving NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space ...

Astronomers are drawing attention to a Christmas Tree-shaped cluster of stars glowing inside one of the Milky Way’s most active stellar nurseries. Known as the Cosmic Christmas Tree, the cluster sits ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree. Known as NGC 2264, this distant star-forming region sits about 2,700 light ...

Arrayed with a simple triangular outline above S Monocerotis, the stars of NGC 2264 are popularly known as the Christmas Tree star cluster. Image Credit & Copyright ...

There may be no enterprise that lends itself so well to the camera as space travel. The universe is a riot of color and light—of galaxies and planets and brightly hued moons. The people who explore ...