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

NASA astronaut Jonny Kim recorded time-lapse footage of aurora, lightning and city lights illuminating the night-side of ...

How much does a black hole change in a year? Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole to be imaged — the supermassive black hole M87*, , which resides at ...

As the night grows long and the winter solstice approaches, there’s a host of astronomical events to watch out for, including ...

Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other publications offer you ...

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 ...

Professors at Penn State helped develop the world’s most powerful survey telescope, which released its first images earlier this week from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The images capture ...

Join us for the first look at the cosmos with NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory as they unveil the first spectacular images! Celebrate the start of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics with the ...

The VLA is a legitimately amazing thing to see in person. If you've ever considered making a visit, you should. It's an awe-inspiring feat of human engineering, and the surroundings are gorgeous.

There are plenty of amazing time lapse videos. This is one. But when you see it paired with Hans Zimmer’s “Dream is collapsing”—from Inception’s soundtrack—it goes from amazing to ...

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 ...