January’s full moon, the “Wolf Moon,” rose alongside Mars at its brightest, occulting it for a short period as seen from ...

Venus is particularly bright in the night sky this month, outshining even Sirius, the brightest star. For observers at ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover is skygazing and photographing lovely examples of noctilucent clouds on Mars. The wispy formations ...

A whitish, grey patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has been explained for the first ...

In a race against time, clouds and the setting sun, photographer Josh Dury captured this dramatic photograph of Comet C/2024 ...

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is known for a stunning spectacle of light in the night sky, but this near-Earth manifestation, which is caused by explosive activity on the sun and carried by ...

So I grabbed my camera, ran outside, and looked up just as Mars was supposed to emerge from the Moon's curved horizon. Seen ...

Six planets will all be visible at once in the night sky this month, lined up across the sky—but one is set to disappear from view.

A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. The comet ...

As uncontrolled blazes have turned large swaths of Los Angeles into hellscapes the last week, Associated Press photographers ...

At least 10 people have been killed and dozens more injured, with many of the remaining fires not contained at all by the ...