Northern Lights could be visible in Illinois Thursday

The Northern Lights could be seen from parts of Illinois Thursday night, according to space forecasters. 

Beaver Moon: How and when to see November's full Moon

Known as the Beaver Moon, November’s full moon will reach peak illumination early next week.

Earth receives laser beam message from 10 million miles away

NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment beamed a near-infrared laser from nearly 10 million miles away to the Hale Telescope at Caltech’s Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California.

Webb telescope finds surprises within heart of Milky Way galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope helped astronomers discovered a massive star about 30 times the mass of our Sun within the Milky Way's star-forming region Sagittarius C.

Leonid meteor shower peaks this weekend: How and when to watch

The aerial spectacle happens annually in November and peaks towards the middle of the month. Here are the best ways to see it.

Watch: Auroral beads dance across starry sky

Video captured beautiful auroral beads dancing across a star-filled sky in Alaska. 

New NASA image shows the most colorful view of the universe yet

The image of MACS0416 was produced using observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA rocket launches into Alaskan northern lights

While a rocket launching into the northern lights puts on a spectacular show, it wasn’t just by happenstance. The timing of this launch had to be just right to get the necessary scientific data.

New pictures of galaxies by European space telescope 'dazzle' like nothing seen before

We've seen photos of these celestial landscapes before, but the "razor-sharp astronomical images" that Euclid provides show details that are new to the human eye.

Famed Apollo 13 astronaut Ken Mattingly dies at 87

Astronaut Ken Mattingly is best remembered for his efforts on the ground that helped bring the damaged Apollo 13 spacecraft safely back to Earth in 1970.