The area near clouds is often classified as ‘clear sky’, but a new study demonstrates the potential biases of misclassifying ...

The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice.

Amanda Kooser covers the quirky side of science and space. NASA's Curiosity rover captured this Mars selfie in 2020. Future human explorers on Mars may one day gaze at the red planet’s clouds.

The image shows the frozen heart of a space cloud, pinpointing different regions of ice within a cloud located over 500 light-years away from Earth. The space cloud is a region of space known as ...

QUICK FACTS Where is it? Mount Vesuvius, Italy [40.82177024, 14.42760653] What's in the photo? The peak of Vesuvius aligned with a gap in the clouds Which satellite took the photo? Landsat 8 When was ...