The brilliant light forms have inspired writers, poets, philosophers and artists across the globe since the beginning of time ...

A pair of spacecraft are launching on a mission to observe the sun's corona by one casting a precise shadow from which the ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope explores the evolution of spiral galaxy UGC 10043 through images taken 23 years apart, in 2000 ...

An unusual planetary system with three known ultra-low density 'super-puff' planets has at least one more planet, according to new observations.

Jupiter reaches opposition; meanwhile, the star Canopus shines bright and the constellation Pictor offers many gems to view.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted five galaxy candidates dating to just 200 million years after the Big Bang, making ...

TheAtlPhoto is sharing a new image from a space telescope every day until December 25. This photo from Hubble shows the ...

Vesto Slipher was not well known, but his groundbreaking observations helped uncover one of astronomy’s most fundamental ...

Magnetic Tornadoes Researchers have observed mysterious, "dark ovals," each roughly the size of the Earth, dotting the polar ...

A side-by-side comparison of the photo with its predecessor from the Hubble telescope shows how clearer the newer telescope ...

While Jupiter’s Great Red Spot has been a constant feature of the planet for centuries, a team of astronomers have discovered ...