Astronomers have uncovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe. This staggering ...

Our Solar System is in motion and cruises at about 200 kilometres per second relative to the center of the Milky Way.

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42)—our solar system ... It may have penetrated the Earth's atmosphere, potentially leaving traces of radioactive elements from ...

This Hubble mosaic is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula, which is located 6,500 light-years away. These opaque, dark knots of gas and dust called "Bok globules" are ...

The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years ...

The return trip to the Earth can take from 35 to 52 minutes ... as Betelgeuse but even farther away is the Orion Nebula, a place where we see new stars forming. Its distance is 1500 light years ...

In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...

Water molecules exist in the Orion Nebula and are still forming today. The nebula is composed mostly of hydrogen gas; other molecules are comparatively rare. Even so, the nebula is so vast that it ...

Look for the Orion constellation and the Orion Nebula (Messier 42 ... It may have penetrated the Earth's atmosphere, potentially leaving traces of radioactive elements from supernovae in ...

To alter the Earth's climate the amount of extraterrestrial ... blue lines and some of them are labelled by their name. The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square.