October 2024 will be remembered by the locals around Pyramid Lake, Nevada, for a rather unusual display of nature's colors ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

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China Chang'e-6 mission has successfully returned to Earth carrying samples of the far side of the moon. Watch the mission ...

Hundreds of big, upper-class houses have mushroomed in an illegal development right on the doorstep of Pretoria with no apparent effort from the City of Tshwane to stop it. There are no proper streets ...

Witches, ghosts and ghouls don't just haunt the Earth ... chilling images from space to add a cosmic scare to your Halloween. Related: Best space horror movies This glowing, green zombie-like ...

Known as one of the top meteor showers of the autumn season because of its bright fireballs, the Leonids started to be ...

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Similar to storm seasons or climate patterns on Earth, the sun experiences a cycle ... As shown below, more sunspots mean more activity. Images of the sun during solar minimum (left) and solar ...