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What would it look like to return home from outside our galaxy? Although designed to answer greater questions, data from […]

On a road trip up Mount Uludağ in Bursa province, Turkey these motorcyclists found themselves above low clouds and fog

As Mars wanders through Earth\’s night, it passes about 5 degrees south of the Pleiades star cluster in this composite

A visitor to the inner solar system every 70 years or so Comet 13P/Olbers reached its most recent perihelion, or

To some, it looks like a penguin. But to people who study the universe, it is an interesting example of

What\’s happening above Uluru? A United Nations World Heritage Site, Uluru is an extraordinary 350-meter high mountain in central Australia

Sometimes, the surface of our Sun seems to dance. In the middle of 2012, for example, NASA\’s Sun-orbiting Solar Dynamic

Saturn now rises before midnight in planet Earth\’s sky. On July 24, the naked-eye planet was in close conjunction, close

From our vantage point in the Milky Way Galaxy, we see NGC 6946 face-on. The big, beautiful spiral galaxy is

These cosmic clouds have blossomed 1,300 light-years away in the fertile starfields of the constellation Cepheus. Called the Iris Nebula,