This dense star field appears as a big, fuzzy patch in the night sky from anywhere in the Southern Hemisphere ... of wispy gas that resembles multicolored cotton candy against a background of orange ...

The lava flows and ash clouds were probably caused by the collapse of a flank of Etna’s southeast crater, authorities said, ...

The universe is huge, yet astronomers have looked at a few parts of the night sky over and over again ... beyond—have looked at the Magellanic Clouds, two mini-galaxies in our celestial ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 30The crescent Moon lies in Cancer this evening, just a few ...

This month's night sky is filled with close-range meteors, swirling nebulas, and prime stargazing conditions. Here’s when you should be looking up. The Milky Way and its core region in ...

There are some sources of background light even then ... from the more distant stars, keeping the sky dark. Sadly, this doesn’t work. Those clouds heat up from absorbing all that radiation ...

WRAL viewers submitted photos of beautiful clouds they saw in the sky before Wednesday night's storms. WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner said they're actually quite common. "It's a beautiful ...

This process creates the classic shelf cloud—broad, arching, and often layered like a stack of waves in the sky. One of the reasons shelf clouds are so visually stunning is because of wind shear ...

In the sunshine, it seemed even warmer, and although many clouds shared the sky, they did not seem to ... leaves bore autumn’s banner against a background of black branches and blue skies.

The month of June offers an exciting opportunity to see rare 'space clouds' in the evening sky. Called noctilucent clouds, these weird clouds glow in the hour after sunset and are only visible for ...