If our 13.8 billion-year-old cosmos could be considered middle-aged, researchers note these new images captured around its ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

That fuzzy splotch, visible to the naked eye when it is really dark (and easily seen through binoculars) is the Orion Nebula. Throughout the nebula (which is about 30 light years wide), we see a ...

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

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 ...

From the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' to the vivid colours of the Lagoon Nebula, check out these 7 astonishing photos of ...

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

The Orion Nebula (M 42) is identified by the red square ... environment encountered by the sun while sailing through our galaxy. More information: E. Maconi et al, The Solar System's passage ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured images in the near-infrared wavelength range of the region near the Trapezium Cluster in the Orion Nebula ... across our home galaxy," Deng said.