Formally known as Messier 44, the cluster is one of the closest of its kind to Earth. It will be visible throughout January, with the best viewing times after sunset and before midnight. While visible ...

They’re one of your best people—a director who’s been instrumental to your success. They’re seasoned, strategic, and ready for more. But there’s nowhere for them to go. No opening at the executive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A view of the Pleiades, a star cluster about 440 light-years from Earth. (ROBERT GENDLER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images) The ...

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The sun wanders the Milky Way alone; our star orbits the galaxy’s distant center without any stellar siblings. But it wasn’t always this way. The solar system was very likely born in a tremendous gas ...

Whether you're watching the pickle drop in Mt. Olive, the acorn in Raleigh, or the ball drop in Times Square, take a moment to look up to the Pleiades on New Years Eve. Also known as Messier 45 by ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree. Known as NGC 2264, this distant star-forming region sits about 2,700 light ...

Astronomers are studying the hundreds of young, brown dwarf stars inside the stellar nursery. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 ...

Day 4 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Star Birth in the Lobster Nebula. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged a region where the radiation and winds from a group of superhot ...

magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on the evening of December 3 to watch the Moon pass by the Pleiades star cluster. Also known as M45 and the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades is ...

The “Seven Sisters” have far more relatives than anyone imagined. Using NASA and ESA space telescopes, astronomers found thousands of hidden stars linked to the Pleiades, forming a colossal stellar ...

Astronomers have discovered that the iconic Pleiades constellation has thousands more “sibling” stars hidden across the sky, making it 20 times larger than currently estimated. Tracing the origins of ...