The Orion Nebula is a region of star formation 1,350 light-years from Earth, located in the belt of the northern hemisphere constellation of Orion. It has long been studied by astronomers, ...

Of course, when you study the Orion nebula with a 6.5-meter-wide space telescope tuned to infrared light, your view becomes exponentially better.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a bright variable star, V 372 Orionis, and its companion in this festive image in this ...

“Breathtaking” images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope are revealing intricate details about how stars and planetary systems form.

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

The Orion Nebula itself is believed to be roughly 3 million years old, "which for us astronomers is very young," he said. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now.

A SHORT time ago we gave an abstract of d'Arrest's “spectroscopical researches.” The Danish paper contains also the conclusions at which he arrived after many years contemplation of the nebula ...

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a diffuse nebula situated south[b] of Orion's Belt.It is one of the brightest nebulae, and is visible to the naked eye in the night sky ...

The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42, M42, or NGC 1976) is a glowing emission nebula with a greenish hue and is situated below Orion's Belt. It is one of the brightest nebulae visible to the ...

The Orion Nebula as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the James Webb Space Telescope (right). NASA, ESA, CSA, PDRs4All ERS Team; image processing Olivier Berné.