The shower, which is caused by Earth plowing through dust shed by Halley’s Comet, is currently active and runs through early ...

A comet discovered earlier this year, now just bright enough to be visible to the naked eye, is poised to be among the top ...

We're into October, which means that the Orionid meteor shower—one of the few astronomical displays that can be reliably ...

Recently, astronomy enthusiast Lv Wenyangsuccessfully detected and precisely located the famous constellation in the winter night sky—Orion—during an amateur observation with his self-made optimized ...

The night sky is full of shapes that evoke human awe. Among them, the Horsehead Nebula remains a favourite. Astronomers say this dark cloud resembles a horse’s head only by chance. The Horsehead ...

This deep view of the Orion Constellation glows in reddish hues thanks to a filtered view of hydrogen alpha emission, a type of light emitted by hydrogen atoms. The large, intricate semi-circle around ...

In 1979, a small ivory tablet dating back to between 32,500 and 38,000 years was discovered in a cave located in the Ach Valley, Germany. The tablet contained a carving that depicts a man-like figure ...

FARGO — The most prominent configuration of stars in the evening sky this time of year is the magnificent constellation, Orion. Known casually as "The Hunter," it can be seen in the southern sky any ...

On Monday, February 10 at 6:09 p.m, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base—as reported in Edhat. This was ...

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Or is it a drone? It might actually be Orion’s Belt. On Friday, former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan took to his X account, writing that he “personally witnessed (and videoed) ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — As the winter season takes hold, December’s clear, crisp nights offer stargazers a dazzling array of nighttime sights. From the Orion constellation to the bright planet Venus and ...

If you go to a very dark site on a moonless night—and I cannot recommend it highly enough that you do so—you’ll be faced with an awesome sight: a night sky seemingly brimming with millions of stars, ...