See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Kepler's Hope by Year of th ...

An international research team led by the University of Vienna has discovered that the solar system traversed the Orion star-forming ... potentially influencing Earth's climate and leaving traces ...

Many know the Great Orion ... the view. It's an illuminating experience that reveals a dark dimension to this familiar object. M42 is the closest massive star-forming region to Earth, making ...

This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392) because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur ...

Four stars forming a parallelogram sit at the cluster’s center. They range in magnitude from 8.8 to 10.1. Step up and view through a ... Horsehead Nebula in Orion the Hunter.