At a frozen Himalayan lake, explorers braved brutal winds to photograph Jupiter at its brightest, revealing rare zodiacal ...

A dead star in our galactic neighborhood has produced a shimmering, ringed structure that looks uncannily like a cosmic ...

Astronomers endured Ladakh's freezing 5,000-metre heights to capture Jupiter at its brightest 2026 opposition, glowing amid ...

Astronaut Kimiya Yui, during his 300th day in space, captured a stunning timelapse video from the International Space Station ...

Astronaut Kimiya Yui has shared a time-lapse video from the International Space Station (ISS). The footage showcases zodiacal ...

Green aurora can be seen dancing in Earth 's upper atmosphere as the zodiacal light fades, shimmering between the profiles of ...

Astronomy magazine's Editor Emeritus, Dave Eicher, encourages pre-dawn observation of the zodiacal light. The zodiacal light is described as having a triangular, inverted cone-like appearance.

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

Night sky lovers have been getting all kinds of treats in the last month: A Perseid meteor shower that’s included fireballs, and a rare “Black Moon” that gave us a really dark sky - all the better to ...

Epic sky. Photographer Petr Horálek observed both a lunar eclipse and a galaxy of stars from the the US National Science Foundation’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. This shot was ...

“Tololo Lunar Eclipse Sky.” Cerro Tololo Observatory, Chile. On March 14, 2025, a total lunar eclipse occurred, especially visible over the Americas and the Pacific Ocean. I was fortunate to observe ...

On April 18, 2025, the WFI-2 instrument (which captured its first light on April 14) took images through all three of its polarizers in succession for the first time to create this view. The image is ...