Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The European ... the highest-resolution images of our star ever. It will also photograph the sun’s poles for the first time.

A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...

Readers’ photos celebrate sunrises and sunsets, when the light is the most pleasing. Fifty-one photos were sent in; here are ...

If you're interested in taking your own impressive skywatching images, we have recommendations ... conjunction with the sun on Feb. 9 and enters the evening sky. By Feb. 19, only 9 degrees from ...

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known as a great planetary alignment. The eight planets in our solar system orbit the sun in ...

Sun dogs. You may have noticed these as a tiny rainbow spot in the sky. I get questions about these all the time. For Sun dogs to appear, you need sunshine and ice crystals suspended in the ...

Today’s photo of the day, “Glorious sky with sun rays shining over Lanai,” comes to us via Rosa Medina. Send your best photos ...

Some people have seen Comet A3 with an anti-tail in front, much like the one seen in this 2023 image of Comet C2022 ... than any star in the night sky besides our Sun (which has a whopping visual ...