The images reveal breathtaking views of star-forming regions, including massive and colorful gas and dust clouds swirling 9,000 light-years from Earth. Located atop the summit of Cerro Pachón in ...

The Vera Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. This image shows another ...

A stunning nebula and a sky dotted full of stars and dancing galaxies are in a set of three images released by the Vera C.

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

In early 2017, the two of us, along with a few others, refreshed the debate on the definition of planet in scientific nomenclature. The International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) historic ...

Have you ever wished for a personal guide to the planets, stars and solar system? A site called Astronomy Picture of the Day has you covered. A service of NASA’s Astrophysics Science Division ...

Schlaufman, an assistant professor in the university’s Department of Physics & Astronomy ... we think we know how planets form in a big picture sense, there’s still a lot of detail we need ...

The internet was young when he and former Goddard colleague Jerry Bonnell thought up Astronomy Picture of the Day (apod.nasa.gov). For 28 years, Nemiroff and Bonnell have been curating photos and ...

On Monday, NASA chose another picture taken in Slovakia for its Astronomy Picture of the Day. Taken by Czech astrophotographer Petr Horálek on early Sunday morning near the town of Tornaľa, ...