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The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...

As soon as I took the lights out of the box, I was impressed with their quality and good looks. Off-white and round, with a ...

Known as China's "City of Lanterns," Zigong hosts its grand international lantern festival from Jan 17 to the end of March. As of Feb 12, the event had already attracted nearly 1.15 million visitors ...

There's no other experience on Earth quite like witnessing the northern lights. Also known as the aurora borealis, this spellbinding phenomenon – when brilliant hues of green, yellow, red and purple ...

The trail is a curated collection of national and state parks, observatories, planetariums, and musuems that offer travelers ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

UK astrophotographer Josh Dury on night-sky success, his passion for documenting natural skies, a brand-new book and an ...

In an amusingly appropriate pairing, after the band’s Billie Joe Armstrong sang the first verse of that song, “Last Night on Earth ... Just shine a light into the wreckage.” ...

We’re in the depths of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. If you can force yourself out from the covers and into the cold, dark night, there’ll be plenty to see in the night sky–cloud cover ...

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859 ... He noticed at a certain point that there were two bright patches of light that appeared in the sunspot group, which ought not to have ...

Ancient fossils of the world's very first dinosaurs may be buried in places almost impossible to investigate, according to new research from University College London and the UK's Natural History ...