NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day today has a little more of a meteorological aspect to it. The picture below is kind of funky looking right? The question is, what ...

Physics Professor Robert Nemiroff, and a photo of the Crab Nebula by the James Webb Space Telescope that was featured on NASA's Picture of the Day website on Nov. 9, 2023.

The New York Times has offered this calendar to readers since 2017. It’s a collection of newsworthy events in spaceflight and astronomy curated by the paper’s journalists.

The Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar goes as far back as June 16 1995 (though only that image and then June 20 onward now display correctly), so just click the month on the main Calendar page ...

The planet Mercury sits 3.5° to the left of a two-day-old crescent Moon in the evening sky tonight. At magnitude 0.1, Mercury is still bring and nearly 6° high in the west an hour after sunset.

As Valentine's Day 2024 approaches, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day offers a cosmic bouquet to admirers of the universe. Here's Rosette Nebula's image.

Today's NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is a stunning snapshot of auroras lighting up the sky in Saariselka, in northern Finnish Lapland. It was a result of a powerful CME hitting Earth and the ...

— Astronomy Picture of the Day (@apod) May 22, 2025 “It is an enormous joy and an even greater motivation to keep going,” Rogozińska told Poland's PAP news agency.