The James Webb Space Telescope detects methyl cation (CH3+) in a young star system with a protoplanetary disk that is located in the Orion Nebula. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA, ...

This shimmering view of interstellar gas and dust was captured by the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope. The ...

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was originally expected to last about 15 years in orbit, before its optical surfaces became too ...

Rising around midnight and nearly 50° high in the south two hours before sunrise is Orion the Hunter, one of autumn’s premier constellations. As the season progresses, Orion will rise earlier and ...

Amateur astronomer Henry Draper and his wife, Anna, achieved the first astrophotographic capture of the Orion Nebula on September 30, 1880, utilizing an 11-inch refractor with a 50-minute exposure.

Astronomy day 2025 is upon us! To celebrate, we've picked six targets to emphasize the variety and scale of objects visible in the night sky that will make for a beautiful and rewarding sight, whether ...

Most everyone’s favorite constellation, Orion the Hunter, is up just before sunrise reminding me that winter is almost here. Orion’s size, bright stars, and distinctive three-star belt and three-star ...

Behind the dusty clouds of the Cigar Galaxy lies a dazzling powerhouse of star formation, where stars are being born ten times faster than in the Milky Way. Astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

CARDIFF, Wales — Astronomers just got a front-row seat to one of the universe’s strangest chemistry experiments, and it’s happening inside the death throes of a star. Using the James Webb Space ...

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. The ...