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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...