Let's celebrate April first as "Healthy Skepticism Day", especially with fantastical astronomy stories and images online ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan on seeing ...

Helix Nebula: This a planetary nebula, which is formed when a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, expands and its outer layers puff off, and then the core of the star shrinks. Orion Nebula ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Ala Ebtekar’s new cyanotypes for Arion Press were exposed using moon and starlight during a partial lunar eclipse ...

While doing research for a book about the imagination of man, Hutchins came across images of the Sombrero Galaxy ... leading him to write his second book, Hubble Reveals Creation by an Awe-Inspiring ...

Standing sentinel outside is the restaurant’s robot mascot—Lady Tron herself—a friendly mechanical server who seems poised to ...

Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...

The Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 200,000 light-years from the solar system, can be seen with the naked eye ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4900 appears ... the foundation for studying future supernovae by collecting images of more than 150 nearby galaxies. When supernova in one of these ...