Look for the three stars that make up the distinctive formation of Orion's Belt — Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka — shining roughly 40 degrees above the southern horizon before sunrise. To estimate 10 ...

Don't miss the moon, Jupiter and the stars of the constellation Orion rise above the eastern horizon on Oct. 12.

On Sunday, Oct. 12, the waning gibbous moon will rise beside the iconic Orion constellation in the eastern night sky. Here’s ...

The writer Tristan Gooley describes how a pair of familiar constellations can help a person navigate in darkness when other ...

The Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years away, is a star nursery where enough gas and dust exist to form roughly 200,000 ...

We're into October, which means that the Orionid meteor shower—one of the few astronomical displays that can be reliably ...

The update of Takashi Nomura’s hardboiled noir will be set in 1978 Detroit and tell the story of Colt, a Vietnam veteran turned contract killer, who goes on the run after assassinating a gangland boss ...

Anthony Wood joined Space.com in April 2025 after contributing articles to outlets including IGN, New Atlas and Gizmodo. He ...