The Pleiades, or "Seven Sisters," is a bright, bluish star cluster located near the constellation Taurus, visible to the ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...

The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located ...

"Breathtaking" images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form. The images, released ...

What we celebrate today as Halloween has its beginnings in a thousands-of-years old Celtic tradition based on the Seven ...

The Orionid meteor shower will soon peak, and conditions could allow for a night full of shooting stars. Folks who missed the Draconid meteor shower will have another chance to see meteors shoot ...

If you missed out on some of the summer’s best stellar displays, you won’t have to wait too much longer to make up for it.

The best time to see a shooting star is on Nov. 16 and 17, when the Leonids peak during an almost completely dark waning crescent moon. The meteors from the Leonids can be very bright and colorful ...

Orionid meteors become visible when debris from Halley's Comet collides with Earth's atmosphere. The Orionid meteor shower ...

Don't miss the moon, Jupiter and the stars of the constellation Orion rise along the southern horizon on Oct. 12.