The sun and the planets around it form part of the Milky Way Galaxy. "The Milky Way is a large barred spiral galaxy. All the ...

This swath of dust, which blocks out light from the bright nebula Gum 55 behind it, is known as the Dark Wolf Nebula.

There's a bright "star" shining in the east after dark. It's Jupiter, which is now approaching it's biggest, brightest and ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

November’s night sky offers Venus and a crescent moon shining together as five planets emerge after sunset and a “Super ...

There’s a poetry to it, a liminal feeling of being between two existences, that of night and day. The prefix “twi-” in Old ...

The other image of the comet below was taken from a beautiful field at the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal. The moonlight was shining bright ... activity in stunning sun photo ...

The sun gets super-active in a new timelapse captured from a Portugal dark sky preserve ... The new moon glows in the sky above Turkey with the reflected light of Earth shining upon it in gorgeous ...

For once, Republicans are wielding power on Beacon Hill. And they’re doing it for a good cause — to restore a little democracy and accountability to the least transparent legislature in the ...