Ready for a sky full of cosmic wonders? From the Moon-Jupiter conjunction on May 16th to Mercury’s evening debut on May 22nd, this week’s sky is packed. Watch Mars glide through the Beehive Cluster, ...

Earth’s blue sky and familiar sun are just one version of reality. On Mercury, the sun blazes over three times larger than on ...

JWST uncovers unexpected behavior in polar lights on Jupiter, while a Mars rover captures the first image of an aurora.

On a mission to discover if one of Jupiter's 4 moons, Europa, supports life, NASA's robotic spacecraft, Clipper, captured a ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...

Europa Clipper tested its infrared camera during a Mars flyby, preparing for its 2030 mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.

NASA believes that the month of May brings visibility to four planets, a new star from a nova, a chance of meteor showers and ...

If you thought the flickering green and red auroras of Earth were spectacular ... spacecraft that has been orbiting Jupiter for nine years. This picture of Mars is a composite of several images ...

What's happening in the skies over North Texas this month? May holds some spectacular sights in the night and morning sky.

Auroras are created when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms or molecules of gas. On Earth, these are known as the northern lights ...