The lanes and clouds of dust in the star-forming Orion Nebula (M42) reveal a dark dimension to this familiar object.

Glimpse Into the Orion Nebula The Hubble Space Telescope’s latest Picture of the Week offers a stunning glimpse into the ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

What better way to end than with some examples of said beauty and utility? After all that reading, we'll leave you with a few glamour shots of our favorite nebula: Messier 16, better known as the ...

The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth’s point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s powerful Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined to ...

Winter skies can be the clearest of the year and the richest in stars. Here are some of the constellations and planets to ...

The glittering, glitzy contents of the globular cluster NGC 6652 sparkle in this star-studded image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The teeming stars of the globular cluster NGC 6544 glisten ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered 42 pairs of these free-floating planetary-mass objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster. They were confused because they weren't ...

Get on the horse and ride This week’s large-telescope target is the famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion the Hunter. Because it occupies the 33rd slot on American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard ...

The Great Orion nebula, also known as Messier 42, and Running Man nebula, also known as NGC 1977. Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also ...