This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

Although Jupiter and Mars have been dominating the eastern sky, there's more here to view than just planets. Already 50° high ...

Mars shines brightly this week as it reaches opposition, appearing golden-red in the sky near Jupiter. Look for it in the ...

ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries.

This towering structure in the Eagle Nebula is a 9.5 light-year-high column of gas and dust from a stellar nursery. This image shows N90, where bright young stars carve a cavity, with distant galaxies ...

Average stars like our sun die ignominiously. They swell to enormous size, cool from yellow to red hot, and shed most of ...

What to do when the mercury is struggling to stay a respectable distance above zero degrees Fahrenheit and your winter coat ...

In 2025, keep an eye on the Southern Cross (known as Crux to astronomers) and Sagittarius (the archer). The Southern Cross is ...

The University of Groningen has launched a public campaign to measure the amount of darkness in the Netherlands, highlighting the importance of p ...

NASA has shared stunning images of various star clusters. Here are a few of these captivating shots. The bright glow of the ...

New ground- and space-based infrared observations are giving astronomers a better handle on the true populations of red ...