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

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

You’ll find several bright planets, stars and obvious constellations in the February evening sky. The most obvious constellation this month is Orion. To find Orion, face south and look for Orion’s ...

Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in February 2025: If you've been outside just after sunset in the ...

Orion’s right foot star is Rigel, the seventh brightest star. Rigel is a blue-white supergiant and is by far the brightest of the 10 brightest stars in terms of actual magnitude. It ranks ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien ...

An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.

A team of scientists has made the first experimental measurements of laser-induced motions of miniature lightsails in the lab.

The study analyzed the circumstellar disks of a pair of stars, learning about how planets are formed from some unexpected ...

I N THE LATE 1980s Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, and Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, proposed a seemingly ...