While astronomy and clouds don’t usually mix, a rare type of atmospheric phenomenon, called noctilucent or night-shining ...

The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR satellite ...

A photograph of the Milky Way taken on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea by Polish astrophotographer Marzena Rogozińska has been named ...

"How planets are born is an unsolved area of research," astrophysicist Daniel Price of Australia's Monash University told Newsweek.

Photographs taken through the great telescope at California’s Lick Observatory, and released last week, reveal the moon’s pockmarked crust in astonishing detail (see cut). Forbidding mountains ...

Astronomy Space photo of the week: Cotton candy clouds shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images ever Astronomy Space photo of the week: Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door ...

In taking celestial photographs the telescope is used as ... Sirius—as that wonderful aid to physical astronomy, the spectroscope, reveals—is shooting through space at the rate of a thousand ...

the 16th Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition has released its stunning shortlisted finalists ahead of winners being announced on September 12. In 2024, some 3,500 photographs were ...

The results can also be processed mathematically—they’re just numbers, after all—and that changed the game for astronomy ... not possible for traditional photographs. Perhaps the most ...

"It was amazing." Sponsor Message Now an astronomy professor at the University of Washington, Davenport is still enthralled by the search. He collaborates with the SETI Institute, a nonprofit ...

Supported by Photographs by Nicholas J. R. White Text by Kat Hill Rum, a diamond-shaped island off the western coast of Scotland, is home to 40 people. Most of the island — 40 square miles of ...

Now, Lowell Observatory is expanding again with addition of the Marley Foundation Astronomy Discovery Center, a state-of-the-art science center with interactive exhibits, a stunning theater and an ...