NASA outlines February night sky events, including Artemis II launch timing, Orion visibility, planetary alignments after sunset, and lunar phases observed throughout the month.

Scientists are using modern technology to peer heavenward. This is an Inside Science story. Since ancient times, people gazing up at the night sky have seen animals, gods and goddesses, and other ...

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

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

A Polish photographer's image showing nebulae above the Tatra Mountains has been selected as NASA's picture of the day on ...

Infrared image of the center of the Orion Nebula taken with the NIRCam instrument on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The insets show expanded images of two faint proplyds from the Hubble Space ...

Astronomers offered a new hypothesis for what created pairs of objects nicknamed JuMBOs, while other scientists argue they may not really exist. The Orion Nebula, top, seen from La Hayuela, Cantabria, ...

Here are some of the most beautiful pictures of the nebula, which were taken with the help of NASA's James Webb telescope. With this telescope, astronomers can also understand the various formations ...