On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

An aurora gently glowing in wavelengths visible to the human eye has been captured on Mars for the first time – and a robot ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

Lake Tahoe is experiencing large-scale shifts in ultraviolet radiation (UV) as climate change intensifies wet and dry ...

"It took three unsuccessful attempts before we got it right, but when we did, it appeared exactly as we had imagined it; as a ...

The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully completed its initial commissioning following the October 14, 2024, launch. Scheduled to arrive in the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has observed an aurora on Mars in visible light for the first time, with the sky glowing softly in ...

Social media users across the Southwest, including in Arizona, shared photos of a mysterious beam of light in the sky on the ...

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

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...