With winter now underway and the Geminid meteor shower over, it is a great time to explore the wonders of the constellation Orion as it appears high in the southeastern sky around 8 p.m. Arizona time.

The word constellation derives from Latin, a “set of stars” and Orion from Greek, “the hunter.” Some constellations are so obscure that they require imagination to see them. Orion is an exception.

The Orion Nebula, housed within the Orion constellation, is a hubbub of stars being birthed, living, and dying. Now, NASA has combined images from three different telescopes, and they tell quite the ...

The article highlights lesser-known celestial objects within the Orion constellation, beyond the Orion Nebula and its brightest stars (Betelgeuse and Rigel). It focuses on Collinder 70, an open star ...

An incredible view of a stellar nursery was captured by Euclid when its infrared camera peered through the LDN 1641 dark ...

Last month marks my 20th year writing the Night Sky column for Space.com. It is difficult for me to believe that in this forum I have penned over a thousand columns on a variety of different subjects ...

There are 88 of them… patterns in the stars named long ago that supposedly depict people, animals and objects. They’re called constellations. Most folks who see them for the first time conclude they ...

A fire is burning at the heart of one of the most beloved constellations. The European Southern Observatory (ESO) released the image Tuesday, offering a unique glimpse at this busy constellation. The ...