Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic cloudscape, with clouds of dust and gas swirling in beautiful colors.

Hubble’s latest image of the Tarantula Nebula highlights cosmic dust, interstellar gas, and active star formation.

In this astrophotography guide, Josh Dury explains how he captures stellar images of the Milky Way, Full Moon and more The ...

The soft browns of their winter hair caught the sun and made them really stand out against the blue shadows of a building ...

At peak magnitude, seek out the goddess of love planet in a clear blue sky in the west-southwest during daylight hours, being ...

RCW 38 lies approximately 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Vela. Unlike many star clusters that appear as simple ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured stunning images of Martian twilight clouds, revealing iridescent dry ice formations on Mars.

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

At the surface, Mars is a desolate, barren world with a rocky landscape, massive dust storms and extreme temperature swings. However, a rover recently captured a splash of color in the sky as rare ...

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

Curiosity, a set of NASA 's robotic "eyes" on the Red Planet, recorded 16 minutes of so-called noctilucent clouds flying ...