The 2025 edition of the Milky Way photographer of the year contest has unveiled a remarkable gallery of night sky images that ...

The speedy solar storm arrived in style, sparking stunning aurora displays as far south as California and New Mexico.

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

As Chinese astronomer Xie Renjiang wrote to Ferris recently, “Astronomy is the most significant ... after years of admiring its photographs. I came down the ladder with a big smile of my ...

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

NASA's Perseverance rover recently captured a photo of green auroras shining in the Martian sky for the first time. The alien ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...