The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...

The solar system moved through a star-forming area near Orion. This event might have increased interstellar dust around Earth ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ... are due south and at their highest in the hours after sunset. Orion's belt of three stars is visible even from city locations, as is Sirius ...

Look high in the southeast sky, near Orion's belt, after sunset ... To see the Mars Triangle, Space.com suggests looking east around 6:30 p.m. local time. Mars is the brightest point and currently ...

Betelgeuse is easy to recognize, standing above the leftmost star in Orion’s Belt in this orientation ... A small scope will net you the magnitude 9.8 space rock just 4.5° southwest of Elnath ...

This will be the last month you can enjoy this stellar group, as the Earth’s movement in its orbit around the sun will gradually cause the night side of Earth to move away from this part of space ...

It's easy to get lost in a clear night sky full of stars. It can feel like a random mess of lights without a little guidance.

Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch ... The observations retained more data than Hubble's. The Orion Nebula sits 1,300 light-years away, but it's among the brightest nebulae in ...

Lucas With Pedersen / 500px/500px/Getty Images How do you organize a space party? You planet. How does the moon cut his hair? Eclipse it. Why don’t astronomers like Orion’s Belt? It’s a big ...