Luna hangs near Spica, Virgo’s brightest star, in the evening sky tonight after a close pass earlier in the day.

Because of this tilt, the Sun sits lower in the sky during winter, which is why the days are shorter. And because the Sun ...

If you live in the southern hemisphere and have been stopped in your tracks by a recent sunset ... Blue and violet light is scattered more strongly than red and orange light—this is also why the ...

Fireflies need darkness to communicate. Males perform an airborne dance while flashing their abdominal lanterns in a pattern ...

Monday starts much like the weekend had with morning sunshine to burn off the fog with temperatures around the 60 degree mark ...

Star of the Month: In June, in the northeast sky after it gets dark, the beautiful and bright blue-white star Vega easily ... overhead in June and offers a nice color contrast to compare to ...

The magazine Nature announced the results of its annual Scientist at Work photography contest. The six winning entries are a ...

The Big 12 remains one of the best basketball conferences, but how do the teams stack up when it comes to their on-court ...

That’s exactly what happens at Blue Mounds State Park in Luverne, Minnesota. The place is hiding in plain sight in the southwestern corner of Minnesota, where most people expect endless farmland, not ...

Chimney Bluffs State Park in Wolcott, New York is nature’s own stress-relief masterpiece – a place so surreal you’ll wonder if you’ve accidentally wandered onto a movie set or perhaps another planet ...