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

Animals with ultraviolet color patterns can be found all over nature. Here’s what we know about what purpose these patterns ...

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

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has successfully ...

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 green in the first viewing of an aurora from any planetary surface other ...

Scientists used cameras aboard NASA's Perseverance rover to capture unprecedented views of the Red Planet's green glowing sky ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible only from the Southern Hemisphere, has been caught in the crosshairs of the ...

Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...