Located about 1,300 light-years from Earth, these young stars, also known as protostars, reside in a hotbed for star formation: the Orion Nebula, which is the nearest massive star-forming region to ...

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 ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty ... These protostars get their names from the Herschel Orion Protostar Survey, conducted with ESA's Herschel Space Observatory.

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.

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 Herschel observations have shown that the dramatic demise ... colourful appearance in visible images – such as those taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The new data shows that ...

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 ...