Part of the closest star-forming region to us, known as the Chamaeleon Complex, has been illuminated by the light of young ...

With binoculars or a wide-field scope, emission nebula IC 1396 is a vast playground, filled with many other interesting ...

Maybe you’re feeling stagnant in your current job—or perhaps you’re wondering if it’s even the right fit for you? And really, ...

In the northern part of the constellation you’ll find NGC 7008, sometimes called the Fetus Nebula due to its unusual shape.

Ancient Chinese astronomers were careful in how they described celestial phenomena when reporting to the emperor. To ensure ...

The Hubble is a “glowing success story of America’s technological prowess”, says NASA. Among its long list of breakthroughs, Hubble’s deep field observations in 1995 captured roughly 3,000 distant ...

Two college students, Snehadeep Kumar and Mohit Kumar Nayak, are building India’s first gamma-ray detecting CubeSat via their ...

The interstellar medium in our Milky Way galaxy is magnetic, can be compressed, and is turbulent. It affects important processes like star formation, cosmic-ray movement, and materials mixing in space ...

In this short, George Lucas talks about Hayden Christensen as Anakin Skywalker talks about Darth Vader's Redemption in ...

Mark Hamil tells a story about Harrison Ford and George Lucas talking about the dialogue that was written for Star Wars: A ...

The summer triangle is an asterism that first appears in the eastern evening sky at the beginning of summer. It includes three very bright stars that are in three different constellations. The stars ...

Astronomers have long thought that the Milky Way is headed for an inevitable crash with its neighbor, Andromeda. But a new ...