Enjoy the first full moon of the year on January 10, 2020, This full moon will undergo a penumbral lunar eclipse. At mid-eclipse, you will find a slight shading - Earth's penumbral shadow - on one side of the moon.

Photographer Yuri Beletsky captured red sprites flashing over the Chilean Andes Mountains.

When the 2 stars in the binary star system V Sagittae come together - around the year 2083, astronomers say - they'll create a star explosion called a nova. Then V Sagittae will temporarily outshine all the stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

The SOFIA flying telescope has captured a new panoramic image of the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The image shows a region more than 600 light-years across, revealing unprecedented details within the center's dense swirls of gas and dust.

USGS reports that the strong earthquake in Puerto Rico this morning was "widely felt." Strong to very strong shaking occurred across parts of southern Puerto Rico closest to the event, and moderate shaking occurred across the rest of the island.

New observations of "super-puff" exoplanets by the Hubble Space Telescope have provided scientists with more clues about these enigmatic and strange worlds.

The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, a bright star in the constellation of Orion, has been making headlines due to a recent drop in brightness. Is an explosion imminent? If it happens, will Earth be affected?

New research shows that Homo erectus, an ancestor of human beings, lived as recently as 108,000 to 117,000 years ago in Ngandong, on the Indonesian island of Java.

We've known for some time that Venus has vast lava plains, fields of small lava domes, and large shield volcanoes. But does it still have active volcanoes? A new study involving lava flows on Venus suggests that, yes, it does.

The outlook for the bushfire situation in Australia continues to be grim. This post is an update via NASA, containing NOAA-NASA satellite images of actively burning fires and the resultant billowing smoke.