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 ...

One of the first constellations amateur astronomers come to recognize, the Queen offers observers many worthy sights.

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

Gaze deeper into the night sky with the best deep space telescopes, perfect for stunning views of the Beehive Cluster, the Orion Nebula and other cosmic wonders. If you're looking for a telescope ...

The Orion Nebula, the closest massive star-forming region to Earth, has long captivated stargazers with its brilliant glow ...

The only drawback here is that the telescopes can suffer from chromatic aberration, where colors and images can seem a bit fuzzy. Here, we've rounded up some of our favorite refractors: the Orion ...

In a stunning revelation, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the cosmic cradle of star formation, capturing an extraordinary view of young ...

More than one million images present the cosmos as Nancy Grace Roman Telescope will see it from 2027.

Deploying a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a league of its own. On a ship bobbing in the Mediterranean Sea, physicists — not typically known ...

There may not be enough data in the world to make it smart enough. The project, officially called GPT-5 and code-named Orion, has been in the works for more than 18 months and is intended to be ...

An illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope as it orbits the sun in our solar system, 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space ...

Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...