The joint European-Japanese mission is only the second survey of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner solar system ...

Astronomers are celebrating the completion of a 2.5-billion-pixel panoramic picture of the entire Andromeda Galaxy. The team includes several UC Santa Cruz researchers who made significant ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image peers into the dusty recesses of the nearest massive star-forming region to Earth, ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot storm, which usually appears dark-red, can be seen shining a lurid blue color in an ultraviolet image of the planet.

The six planets will be visible in the days immediately leading up to Jan. 21, and for about four weeks afterward. Mars, ...

Astronaut Don Pettit has taken one of the most incredible astrophotography pictures ever, and possibly the best taken by ...

So I grabbed my camera, ran outside, and looked up just as Mars was supposed to emerge from the Moon's curved horizon. Seen ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

OUR camera club is out and about in all weathers and is always poised to take and share some of the finest pictures of our county. As part of our look back at 2024, here's a round-up of some of ...

The study, which has revealed the distribution and evolution of these intriguing celestial bodies, is giving scientists an entirely new perspective on the formation of the outer solar system. These ...