Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

Most people have never seen the Little Dipper, because most of its stars are too dim to be seen through light-polluted skies.

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

I’m astonished by how deeply I’ve come to love this weird and wonderful festival. And by how it is still legal.

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

In Raleigh, the earliest sunrise of 2025 occurred June 12 at 5:57 a.m., while sunsets will continue shifting later by a few ...

The summer solstice is a moment in space and time during the annual orbit when our tilted planet’s Northern Hemisphere points the most toward the sun.

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun’s magnetic field "a mess." The Sun's magnetic north and south poles switch places every 11 years, and it's a somewhat ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...