With the solar maximum inching closer, astrophotographers are expecting to see more and more auroras in the night sky. However, that isn't the only light show that photographers are catching ...

The spiral made its way across the sky's green and red hues for about three ... Warren/Associated Press The lights attract tourists and spectators, both in person and afar, to observe the ...

It has a diameter of roughly 50,000 light years. It is one of the closest and brightest spiral galaxies in the sky, and is orientated so that it is almost entirely face-on as seen from Earth ...

The Priority Mail 'Spiral Galaxy' and Priority Mail Express 'Star Cluster' stamps are now available in panes of four at post ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told reporters on Monday (Jan. 13) at the 245th meeting of the American ...

A supernova called SN 2023ixf has appeared in the outskirts of a beautiful spiral galaxy in the night sky. The exploding supergiant ... SN 2023ixf itself is merely a point of light, but it ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space ... it's a composite of images taken in different wavelengths of light. What sets this image apart, however, is that ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

M81 (Bode’s galaxy) is a large spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years from Earth and is one of the brightest galaxies in the night sky. M82 (the Cigar galaxy) is a starburst galaxy also ...