From Orion's glowing nebula to the sparkling Pleiades, these winter targets reward anyone willing to brave the cold.

Dark nebulas are notoriously challenging to capture because they emit little to no light of their own. Meyer imaged LDN 1245 ...

A man in Cornwall was left shocked after he spotted what seemed to look like a UFO while driving back home on Christmas Day, with a similar incident in 2024 ...

The swirling lights have been seen across the UK and have caused much debate among those who have witnessed the strange phenomenon ...

Astronomers have chased hypervelocity stars for more than a century. These rare objects move so fast that the Milky Way ...

In the Solar System, there’s only one other gas giant: Saturn, currently visible to the west in the early evening. Leaving ...

How would you feel if your therapist’s notes – your darkest thoughts and deepest feelings – were exposed to the world? For 33,000 Finnish people, that became a terrifying reality, with deadly conseque ...

We live in an age where taking photographs is easier than ever. The numbers are honestly wild—research suggests roughly 1.8 ...

On Jan. 15, 2025, the Gaia spacecraft took its last image. Then the craft ran a final round of engineering tests, fired its thrusters to leave Earth behind, and slipped into an orbit around the Sun, ...

The last quarter moon is on January 10, and new moon is on January 18. The waxing crescent moon is just above Saturn on ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare starless galaxy-like cloud known as a RELHIC, providing the strongest evidence yet for a cornerstone prediction of the Lambda CDM model: that many small dark matter ...