Few stars have rattled astronomers quite like Betelgeuse, the swollen red beacon in Orion that dimmed so dramatically in ...

The coming year's space highlights include a NASA mission that will send astronauts around the moon and a Blue Origin lunar ...

Nebulae are some of the most breathtaking sights in the universe — vast clouds of gas and dust where stars are born, or where they meet their spectacular ends. From the delicate wisps of the Veil ...

The creator of the futuristic Orion capsule, the only spacecraft capable of speeding aeronauts to the Moon, is set to begin ...

The discovery is the first direct observational confirmation of a theory for how young stars feed on, and then explosively ...

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, ...

With no Moon in the evening sky, let’s visit a favorite gem that’s now well above the horizon in the few hours leading up to midnight: the Orion Nebula (M42). Hanging below the easily recognized belt ...

Day 4 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Star Birth in the Lobster Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a region where the radiation and winds from a group of superhot ...

Award recognizes OrbitIQ™ for transforming orbital modeling, strengthening mission resilience, and advancing space superiority CHANTILLY, Va., Dec. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcfield today announced ...

The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

I simply hate the way space exploration takes me from exultation to despair in a heartbeat, by continuously announcing magnificent programs, plans, and hardware, and continuously hitting roadblocks ...

Physicists discovered that the famous 'Star Trek' spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...