SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Friday night star parties are returning to the University of Illinois Springfield this month. Star ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new imagery of stellar nursery 30 Doradus, nicknamed the Tarantula Nebula. The ...

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

The telescope primarily detects light in the infrared in order to observe sources such as the first galaxies and protostars.

In ancient Arabic, the three stars were collectively referred to as Al Nijad (“The Belt”), Al Alkat (“The Golden Grains or Nuts”), Al Nasak (“The Line”). In modern Arabic, they’re known as Al Mizan al ...

The three blue supergiants forming Orion’s Belt are prominent winter sky markers, visible worldwide and aligned along the Milky Way, according to Space.com.

In 1883, a comet capable of ending life on Earth narrowly missed impact. Only one man on the planet noticed, a Mexican scientist.

Jupiter continues shining brightly in the east in the evening among the stars of Gemini. To the right of Gemini is Orion with orange-red Betelgeuse and blue-white Rigel at diagonally ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers measure cosmic rays in far-off ...

Prominent constellations in the February evening sky are Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga. You’ll also find dazzling Sirius, the brightest star visible from Wyoming, near the ...

Few things are as captivating as a dark, star-filled sky. But the stars we see and enjoy don’t just “exist”; they all came into being long ago inside of massive clouds of gas and dust known as ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known and commonly photographed planetary nebulae because it resembles the “Eye of Sauron.” It is also one of the closest bright nebulae to Earth, located ...