For the best chance of watching the spectacular northern lights, many head to areas around the Arctic, such as Norway, ...

Looking for a really big story, I naturally headed for "Galaxies in Collision." Bradley Whitmore of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore brought us up to speed. We've known for a ...

The attack on NASA is particularly focused on research into climate change and continues the trend, under both Republicans ...

Enjoy dark skies for evening observing, then catch a meteor shower and a planetary conjunction in the morning sky this week.

Tromso sits at the centre of the northern lights’ oval, meaning that the lights can be visible even when activity is low.

proving that the sun had bent the starlight and validating Albert Einstein’s new theories of gravity. In 1923, Edwin Hubble captured a pulsing star within the Andromeda Galaxy on a glass ...

Earth Day is about celebrating our own "pale blue dot," but sometimes stargazing can help us appreciate what is right in front of us even more. Plus, looking up at the night sky is the perfect ...

The Andromeda Galaxy's family of dwarfs are an enigma. First it was the unusual flat plane around which more than half of ...

Ladi Svoboda told Snopes that the photo was "real but artistically interpreted," while noting that similar shots were ...

Be careful out there, astronomers: There could be a dark galaxy in our midst. In research published today in Science Advances, researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences discovered ...

"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did it! This has opened the door to new dreams and challenges." ...