This artist wanted to speed paint an image of the night sky. After laying down a deep blue background, they splattered white stars on their canvas. Once they laid down the foundation, they added ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an 'anti-tail.' ...

The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’t exactly local. ... A decently dark site in a rural area has a sky background of about 21 mag/arcsec 2.