James Marshal Couch discovered Benitoite, a rare gemstone once mistaken for sapphire, in California's San Benito Mountains.

A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently spotted some mysterious red lights glowing in Earth's upper atmosphere. Matthew Dominick, commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 ...

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency ...

Scientists have observed an aurora glimmering in infrared light, created by the interaction of energetic cosmic particles and carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

An astronaut captured rare photos of elusive red lights known as red sprites over Earth while aboard the International Space Station.

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at the presence of many previously unseen clouds throughout the galaxy.

Earth has rarely looked as remarkable as it does in this stunning shot (above) captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...

A colossal filament eruption on the sun's northeastern limb has created a 250,000-mile-long canyon of fire, triggering a ...

Here's when to watch tonight's buck moon illusion rise in Capricorn and what it means as we near the Mercury Retrograde ...

SAN DIEGO — A new attraction called "Glowing Oceans" is set to bring the mesmerizing phenomenon of bioluminescence to Southern California year-round, starting in June 2025. Created by biologist ...