With February’s winter nights regularly dropping below freezing, it’s tempting to take the easy way out and just stay inside.

Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star formation: the Orion Nebula, which is the nearest massive star-forming region to ...

The image holds a lot of value in bringing to light powerful processes that are shaping star systems in their very early stages. The birth of stars: HOPS 150 in the Orion Nebula HOPS 150 is a ...

Planetary systems are demonstrably affected by ... say 2500 to 3000 stars rather than 1500. The Orion Trapezium cluster, discovered in 1617 by Galileo Galilei, is composed of some 2000 stars ...

One of the key highlights of Hubble’s image is HOPS 150, a binary system composed of two young protostars. Discovered through the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey, this pair of stars is ...

The speculation has been particularly intense regarding the future of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion crew vehicle. Some pundits have called for the outright cancellation of SLS and ...

The Orionid meteor shower is caused by dust and debris being left in the inner Solar System by none other ... some of the very brightest stars in the night sky, Orion’s unmistakable Belt is ...

But what might be most intriguing about this mission is that NASA didn’t test one of the most important systems the Orion will need to have if it plans to actually take humans to the Moon and ...

Just 1,500 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is visible to the unaided ... right corner of this image is HOPS 150: it's a binary star system where two young protostars orbit each other.

Al Jabbar is one of the Arabic names for Orion, the “Hunter", one of winter's most conspicuous constellations.