Researchers from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory (XAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have made significant progress in understanding how three-dimensional (3D) layered structures form ...

The night sky is buzzing with celestial activity this month. In addition to the Jupiter opposition, the "beehive cluster" will be visible throughout January, according to NASA. Formally known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The open star cluster NGC ...

Astronomers working with the Hubble Space Telescope have pinned down the distance to NGC 6397, one of the Milky Way’s nearest ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the open star cluster M35, which lies at the feet of the constellation Gemini the Twins. It’s easy to spot even through binoculars, and it makes a ...

Warm mid-August summer nights offer prime conditions for spotting three magnificent star clusters visible to northern-hemisphere skywatchers in the coming months. Star clusters are gravitationally ...

The European Space Agency’s Euclid space telescope has detected a gap in the population of faint red dwarf stars inside the ...

the constellation Orion with the Orion Nebula Cluster as the central “star” in the sword of Orion, the Pleiades and the Hyades. All three open clusters are highlighted by large yellow circles. Orion ...

Astronomers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) have inspected a Galactic open cluster known as NGC 2506 as part of the WIYN Open Cluster ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Early risers on Saturday, July 5, are in for a pre-dawn ...