Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is similar ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula.

We typically think of the Oort cloud as scattered ice balls floating far from the sun, yet still tied to it gravitationally.

Valentine's Day arrives each year draped in romance, an unspoken promise lingering in the air like the scent of freshly bloomed red roses.It's a day when the world slows just enough to celebrate love ...

Ever noticed how the sky turns a strange greenish hue before a tornado? This eerie phenomenon has baffled people for years, but science finally explains why it happens! The color shift is caused by ...

Navigate to Edit, then click Generate image. You can also click the icon that looks like an image with an arrow and sparkle ...

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

The Sun sets differently on Mars. Part of that is due to its distance from the star (an average of 142 million miles versus ...

"We try to cover as much sky as possible," he says. "We don't need to see as far as possible out in the universe." What Denneau and others are looking for is an unexpected, telltale movement against ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a football field as they try to determine how likely it is to strike Earth in ...

A recent video created from images captured by Curiosity shows clouds tinted red and green flowing though the sky over Mars.

The area near clouds is often classified as ‘clear sky’, but a new study demonstrates the potential biases of misclassifying ...