At these heights, the atmosphere is cold enough that clouds are typically composed of ice crystals, not water droplets. These clouds often look thin, wispy, and delicate—but they can provide valuable ...

The Aquarids, a meteor shower famous for its speedy balls of space debris that streak across the night sky, is peaking soon.

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

PlanetsOnly two bright planets remain visible in the evening sky. On May 3rd, the bright moon will sit about 2 degrees above ...

I photograph people with the Stars and Stripes and ask them what the flag means to them. Pictured here is retired Marine Robert Frazier, running across his family’s cornfield in Harrisonburg, Virginia ...

May marks our final full month of noticeable daylight gains. As we approach the summer solstice in June – the longest day of ...

It is rare when we highlight a celestial event (or events) that involves the zodiacal constellation of Cancer the Crab. In ...

Catch some morning meteors, see the Moon reach First Quarter, and watch Mars visit the Beehive in the sky this week.

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...

A bottle of almost-empty white wine sits on the outdoor dining table in a town square in Spain, a droplet running down the ...

April 2025 was the wettest April on record in Springfield, with 13.29 inches of rainfall, and is also the sixth wettest month ever, with another storm expected to bring showers and cool ...