Young stars need time to grow into their final masses before they begin fusing lighter elements into heavier elements as main ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured striking new images of stars forming inside the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex, ...

The Orion Nebula is the closest large star-forming region, located within the Milky Way just 1,500 light-years from Earth.

In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star formation region is one of ...

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.

Astronomers have puzzled for 88 years about how a pair of binary stars have continued to erupt over the course of a century, but it seems the mystery has finally been solved. Now, a team of ...

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 ...

In last week’s Starwatch, I described at least some of the celestial treasures waiting for you within the great constellation ...