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 ...

Sky Shorts author says Orion a favorite constellation, and shares key details to find and appreciate its beauty.

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

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming within collapsing clouds of gas and dust.

Dwarf Lab releases the Dwarf Mini, a pocket-sized smartscope for deep-sky imaging, with 2MP RAW capture, IMX662 sensor and ...

Sunrise and sunset • Sun rises at 7:10 a.m. and sets at 5:21 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:36 a.m. and sets at 5:52 p.m. on the 28th Moon’s phases • Full “Snow Moon” on the 1st • New moon on ...

Khaberni - Accurate astronomical calculations determine the timing of Ramadan in Saudi Arabia, coinciding with the observation of prominent celestial phenomena that distinguish the sky in February and ...

The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.

Hubble may no longer be the gold standard, but it can still capture some impressive images. The telescope's latest snapshot ...

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

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.

Blue supergiant stars are hot, luminous stars that are larger than our sun (i.e., have more mass and larger radii), but smaller than red supergiant stars. They typically have surface temperatures ...