I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

Pleasant creatures that, as it turns out, glow bright pink when hit with ultraviolet light. In an incredibly interesting study that was born out of mere happenstance, researchers in Wisconsin ...

As someone who lives near the city, light pollution limits what I see when I look up at night. However, that doesn't mean I ...

It looks like a triangular glow where the sun has recently ... Nearby will be orangey Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus and about 65 light-years from the solar system.

We do not notice that the glow is really made up of millions of quick flashes. The reason why dinoflagellates give off bright flashes of light is not clearly understood by scientists, but it is ...

A glorious, colorful image captured by a telescope in Chile shows the bright glow of star cluster RCW 38, where young stars are being born.