The first image of the whole Earth from space came in 1972, when astronauts Ron Evans or Harrison Schmitt took a photo from onboard Apollo 17 while headed to the Moon. This was the first time that an ...

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The Croc's Eye and Whirlpool galaxies shine in astrophotography captured by Vermont-based night sky enthusiast Dr. Michele ...

Friday in D.C. occupied a special spot between May Day and Derby Day, and seemed to rise to the atmospheric occasion. It ...

At these heights, the atmosphere is cold enough that clouds are typically composed of ice crystals, not water droplets. These clouds often look thin, wispy, and delicate—but they can provide valuable ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

One of the largest structures in the sky, as seen from our perspective, has only just been discovered. It’s an enormous cloud ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...