A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky ...

The innermost planets straddle nighttime, with Mercury in the evening and the greatest western elongation of Venus in the ...

In its first attempt to study the direction of the light or the solar wind’s movement, the spacecraft captured color-coded ...

"The first time I spotted it, I thought at first it may have been a rare form of blue aurora but then realised it was moving ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

Explore NGC 6946, the Fireworks Galaxy—an active starburst galaxy on the Cepheus-Cygnus border known for its high rate of ...

When the billions of stars comprising the Milky Way, our home galaxy, appear especially vibrant as the band arcs across the night sky, it’s a photo op ...

NGC 685, a smaller cousin of our Milky Way, dazzles with youthful energy as newborn stars light up its spiral arms.

This month's full moon phase will occur during the early hours of June 11 for viewers in New York, at 3:44 a.m. EDT (0744 GMT ...

1987 — Danny Harris defeats Edwin Moses in the 400 hurdles at a meet in Madrid, ending the longest winning streak in track ...

Astronomers reported Monday that the probability of the two spiral galaxies colliding is less than previously thought, with a ...