Chris Hill peered through the lens of the telescope in his backyard one cold night, looking into the sea of stars and galaxies that pepper the night sky like grains of sand. He walked to a pair of ...

NASA's new 3I/ATLAS images spark global fascination and intensify alien spaceship speculation as stunning comet photos ...

A skywatcher is literally beaming at the night sky in this star-speckled portrait. Astrophotographer Ruslan Merzlyakov captured this cosmic selfie while stargazing on the beach in Stenbjerg, Denmark ...

He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...

Looking at the night sky can, paradoxically, feel grounding; this is, of course, not to mention that interpreting constellations has been a rich source of navigation and storytelling for thousands of ...

Artists have been fascinated by the night sky and its dazzling cosmos for centuries. From Van Gogh’s trippy The Starry Night (1889) to Théodore Géricault’s eerie, green-tinged After the Deluge (1819) ...

As the summer sun set over Meetinghouse Pond in Phippsburg, Maine, on July 29, the show got started. This time-lapse video, filmed at the college’s Coastal Center at Shortridge by Bates photographer ...

Now that the clocks have gone back and early winter evenings have set in, the nights can feel long and dark – however, it offers the perfect opportunity to capture photography of the night sky and its ...

As much of the world grinds to a halt amid the coronavirus pandemic, people who are living under lockdown have looked up to notice clearer, sparkling night skies. In Europe, the absence of most cars ...

On July 14, a NASA space probe will make a close flyby of Pluto and send back unprecedented images and data from its surface. In anticipation of the New Horizons flyby, this sky chart can help you ...

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