Breathtaking images of a lavender field lit up by the Milky Way, a panorama of Iceland’s Northern Lights over a frozen estuary, and a hazy sunrise in Shanghai are among those shortlisted for this year ...

Steven Mohr, "NGC 2024 – Flame Nebula" (2020) (all images courtesy the photographers and the Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition) Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in.

See finalists for the 13th annual Royal Observatory Greenwich's Astronomy Photographer of the Year. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

What better way to celebrate the start of May than by catching a glimpse of a meteor shower? The 2021 Eta Aquarid meteor shower will peak on the evening of Tuesday, May 4, through the early morning of ...

Artist’s impression of the migration of Titan and the tilt of Saturn. Credit: Coline SAILLENFEST / IMCCE Two scientists from CNRS and Sorbonne University working at the Institute of Celestial ...

Every year, the holiday season is the perfect time to deepen one’s love of the cosmos. It’s also a great time to introduce someone you know to the magic of astronomy and skygazing by giving them a ...

Now even astronomy has to be intersectional. Astro 2020 is the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) outline of astronomy’s top priorities for the next ten years. Astro ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Comets pass through our skies frequently, but not many manage to crack naked-eye brightness. That’s why, when one gets close to or crosses that threshold, it’s worth taking notice. And now, it’s time ...

Just as God handed down the ten commandments to Moses at Mt. Sinai, astronomers are having their ten commandments moment this week — in the form of a much-anticipated 614-page report, handed down from ...

Breathtaking images of a lavender field lit up by the Milky Way, a panorama of Iceland’s Northern Lights over a frozen estuary, and a hazy sunrise in Shanghai are among those shortlisted for this year ...