Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a giant storm, the largest known in our solar system. It's been seen through earthly telescopes for more than 300 years. Lately, it's been showing signs of breaking apart. Is this the beginning of the end for the beloved Spot?

We're now in the middle of the best time of year to see Jupiter, and it's near the starry arc of the Milky Way. Enjoy this panoramic image from John Ashley in Montana.

Check out this optical illusion and find out what it says about your brain.

New observations by the ALMA telescope in Chile have revealed a never-before-seen disk of cool, interstellar gas wrapped around Sagittarius A*, the giant black hole at the center of our galaxy.

The young moon returned to the evening sky this week. June 4 photo by Heidi Gabbert in San Jose, California.

A golden eagle flying in front of a funnel cloud over the Steens Mountain Wilderness in southeastern Oregon. Thomas Patrick Tully, who posted these photos in earIy June, wrote that the funnel "... almost touched down and stayed strong for several minutes."

If you live in the Southern Hemisphere, this is a good time of year to for the Southern Cross in your southern sky, as soon as darkness falls.

A new study reports that sponges, which can filter 10,000 liters of water daily, catch DNA in their tissues as they filter-feed.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was used to create this large mosaic of stars and dust clouds in the direction of the constellation Cepheus. Here are multiple star clusters - young, middle-aged and older - born from the same dense clumps of gas and dust.

Lightning over North Borneo, Malaysia.