The Orion Nebula, a nursery for new stars, is showcased in this breathtaking image, with young stars and protostars shining ...

Set against a backdrop littered with tiny pinpricks of light glint a few, brighter stars, this is NGC 1858, a 10-million-year ...

The comet, which is 87 million miles away from Earth, appeared in the constellation Sagittarius ... a grand appearance in images from the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

From supermoons to an eclipse and star parties at national parks, these captivating celestial phenomena will get Americans ...

This image shows the constellation Sagittarius, home to the globular cluster M22, with the shape of the "Teapot" formed by its brighter stars. Hubble's image captures NGC 1866, a star cluster bound by ...

Solar masses are a unit of measurement used in astronomy to express the mass of other celestial objects in comparison to the ...

Virgos are conceived during Sagittarius season ... know how the current 12 zodiac signs are based on constellations? Well, a few years ago, NASA reportedly made small changes to the constellation ...

These popular astronomy questions, answered by Astronomy magazine, will help you better understand our universe - and share ...

I was 5-years-old back in 1977 when NASA ... in the constellation of Ophiuchus. If you’re interested in tracking that, Ophiuchus is northwest of the Milky Way between Scorpius and Sagittarius.

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...