A star is currently forming in the Orion Nebula, visible to the naked eye right under Orion’s Belt. This giant cloud of gas and dust contains enough material to create about 200,000 stars over ...

The constellation of Orion is home to some of the brightest and most iconic stars in the night sky. Among these stellar ...

Nasa's powerful James Webb Space Telescope is showing us something humankind has never witnessed firsthand before: The birth ...

The Short Wave team talks about spider origins, why the odds of having a girl or a boy aren't 50-50, and what the Orion ...

What could we choose as the seven most remarkable celestial objects visible either with our eyes or with a small telescope?

It's the earliest stage of planet formation ever seen by scientists. The new planetary system is taking shape around HOPS-315 ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

It is Betelgeuse and for hundreds of years astronomers have puzzled why its twinkle grows lighter and then dimmer over time.

You may have heard of the phrase "dog days." But what does that mean? Here's how mid-summer came to be called the dog days.

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of planets around a distant star, shedding light on our own solar system's birth.

“Sometime around mid- to late September, if you get up before the sun rises and look to the east part of the sky, you’ll see Sirius, the brightest star in the sky. It’s extremely bright and it will be ...

Astronomers have said they observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the first time, revealing ...