Sunspot AR3038 is massive and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has had its eye on it. Watch a time-lapse of it growing to ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks and Jupiter were seen by NASA's Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory-A (STEREO-A). Credit: Space.com ...

Like cool pictures of the cosmos? You came to the right place. It's called the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and even though it’s located in Chile, it's funded and operated by the U.S. government. In a ...

The Northern Lights were visible in the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido and elsewhere in Japan on Wednesday night.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. From 1999 until 2013, Chandra data showed an expanding ring of X-ray emission that had been steadily getting brighter. This was produced by the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Samantha Thompson, Smithsonian Institution (THE CONVERSATION) Everything in space – ...