Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...

New research suggests that the largest cosmic structure is even bigger and closer to Earth than we knew. It goes against ...

The Lyrid meteor shower, one of the oldest known meteor showers, is at its peak and will continue through April 26.

Classified as a super-Earth and a sub-Neptune, these two new celestial bodies are among the most common types of exoplanets found in the Milky Way galaxy ... for the Northern hemisphere (HARPS ...

Think of it as the opposite of a supermoon, which is what happens when a full moon coincides with perigee, its closest approach to Earth ... living within the Northern Hemisphere will be able ...

The Earth's axial ... when the Earth has its closest pass to the Sun (perihelion) — the so-called precession of the equinoxes. Today, perihelion occurs in northern hemisphere winter but at ...

SEE ALSO: NASA leader doubts Elon Musk will push Trump to axe moon rocket BepiColombo makes final Mercury flyby: Jan. 8 Mercury is the closest ... show for the Northern Hemisphere.

These celestial neighbors, visible from the Southern Hemisphere ... 160,000 and 200,000 light-years away from Earth. They are rich in gas and young stars, making them ideal subjects for studying ...

The Magellanic Clouds: A Cosmic Duo The Magellanic Clouds, visible primarily from the Southern Hemisphere ... years away from Earth, respectively. They are rich in gas and young stars, making them ...

In the southern hemisphere, the earth's rotation causes air to flow clockwise around low pressure systems and anticlockwise around high pressure systems. (The opposite applies in the northern ...