The sun is Earth's closest star, yet its beauty is too intense to appreciate with the naked eye. Here are some of the most stunning solar images that our satellites and telescopes have captured.

The passing of comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas is close enough to Earth, an estimated 44 million miles away, to see with the naked ...

A woman uses a shovel to remove mud from a building on Main Street in Marshall, North Carolina. The death toll from Hurricane ...

New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint "anti-tail" pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling ...

Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere have been treated to a stunning celestial display with the recent appearance of comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS).

Solar flares are flashes of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation released from active areas of the sun's surface, usually sunspots. They are classed by power on a scale of A, B, C, M, and X-class, where X ...

It's not too often the skies are awash in pink and purple. But that's what happened on Thursday when northern lights soared ...

A rare comet is still glowing over Ohio. Here's how to see it before it's gone, and won't return for 80,000 years.

This rare sighting in the region was due to a G4 geomagnetic storm that reached Earth, triggered by a coronal mass ejection ...

Some Central Texans witnessed a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event this weekend, as a comet passed over the region and was ...

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired ...

NASA is launching a coding competition to get some much-needed help with organizing images from April's solar eclipse for the ...