This week is the best time in May to view the night sky. Here's everything you can see during May's dark skies, from an upside-down bear to some of the oldest stars in the universe.

People have always gazed at the night sky in wonder, going as far back as the ancient Babylonians. The roots of what we know ...

Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...

Image is the first taken on the surface of another planet, and the first visible-light aurora image from anywhere other than ...

A serendipitous solar outburst let scientists point the robot’s cameras toward the Red Planet’s sky to spot a feature shared with our Blue Marble.

NASA 's Perseverance rover has captured an aurora in the night sky for the first time from the Martian ground.

Sir David Attenborough's longtime friend Sir Michael Palin made an off-the-cuff remark about the British broadcaster's legacy ...

Did you know that the sun is up for more hours this month than in August? August is summertime, and May is still spring, so it may not seem quite right.

If so, the planets of Sirius and Vega would have ... and if we close our eyes after gazing a moment at him when high up in the sky, we see a blue image. When the sun is low, his colour changes ...

Stargazers can see clusters of shooting stars and planets lighting up the California night sky in May. Stunning streams of comet dust will dash across the sky when the Eta Aquarid meteor shower ...

Caroline Delbert is a writer, avid reader, and contributing editor at Pop Mech. She's also an enthusiast of just about ...