Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

Jonathon Amos follows the engineers and astronomers who are working on the biggest telescope ever sent to space, in one of the most important missions in the history of European spaceflight ...

Of course, Herschel could never have imagined that we’d eventually get a view of the galaxy as detailed and jaw-dropping as the ones that our mega-powerful space telescope can provide.

Witness the breathtaking beauty of the Orion Nebula, where two young stars, HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, shine bright amidst cosmic dust, showcasing the dynamic processes of star formation.

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting telescope in 1609. Although not the inventor of the telescope, Galileo was the ...

And a hexacopter was hovering nearby to film it How a team of experts navigated a spaceship through the streets of L.A. The Herschel Space Telescope closes its eye after the last of its coolant ...

The recent photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures two of these protostars, called HOPS 150 and HOPS 153, both of which take their names from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey ...