Astronomers have obtained one of the best images yet of a brown dwarf, an object in a mass range midway between stars and planets. This brown dwarf - called HD 33632 Ab - lies 86 light-years from our sun.

Joe Biden is the United States presidential election winner, but his plans for NASA remain unclear. And while citizens digest the election results, the space industry is left wondering what comes next.

Forty years of satellite data show that 2020 was just the latest in a decades-long decline of Arctic sea ice.

Popocatépetl volcano near Mexico City has been erupting since January 2005. On January 6, Mexico’s National Center for Prevention of Disasters, which continuously monitors the volcano, warned people not to approach due to an outburst that caused falling ash and rock fragments.

The Age of Aquarius may be said to begin when the vernal equinox point moves in front of Aquarius. But when will that be?

See a whole year of sun images, an image a day for 2020, taken by ESA's Proba-2 satellite.

For the first time since October 2015, sky watchers will have the chance to view a planetary trio, or 3 planets all bunched up together on the sky's dome. Two are Jupiter and Saturn, fresh from their much-viewed December conjunction. The 3rd planet is elusive Mercury.

Venus, Antares, and the moon before sunup.

The oldest known example of a water treatment system in the Western Hemisphere was recently discovered in Guatemala.

Photo of star trails over a tree-lined path in Iran.