What color is Pluto, really? It took some effort to figure out. Even given all of the images sent back to Earth when the robotic New Horizons spacecraft sped past […]

A popular name for January’s full moon in the northern hemisphere is the Full Wolf Moon. As the new year’s first full moon, it rises over Las Campanas Observatory in […]

Epsilon Tauri lies 146 light-years away. A K-type red giant star, epsilon Tau is cooler than the Sun, but with about 13 times the solar radius it has nearly 100 […]

You might not immediately recognize this street map of a neighborhood in Jyväskylä, Finland, planet Earth. But that’s probably because the map was projected into the night sky and captured […]

How well do you know the night sky? OK, but how well can you identify famous sky objects in a very deep image? Either way, here is a test: see […]

Yes, but can your blizzard do this? In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan’s Storm of the Century in 1938, some snow drifts reached the level of utility poles. Nearly a […]

The December 28 night launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida marked the fifth launch for the rocket’s reusable side boosters. About 2 minutes 20 […]

Jupiter, our Solar System’s ruling gas giant, is also the fastest spinning planet, rotating once in less than 10 hours. The gas giant doesn’t rotate like a solid body though. […]

Northern lights shine in this night skyview from planet Earth’s stratosphere, captured on January 15. The single, 5 second exposure was made with a hand-held camera on board an aircraft […]

Get out your red/blue glasses and check out this stereo view of another world. The scene was recorded by Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one […]