In January 2004, NASA announced it was canceling a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. In light of dangers associated with the Columbia tragedy the previous year, it was considered too ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Recently digitized drawings by a 19th-century artist reveal stunning sunspots, auroras and even ...

Colleges are ancient institutions, with the oldest universities clocking in at around a thousand years in age. For those of you keeping score, that's older than most nations. And those first ...

In the 1800s, creating astronomical images was more an art than it is today and the New York Public Library is digitally preserving a series of stunning images created by the by French-born artist ...

From a gigantic rainbow serpent fashioned out of recycled jerry cans to a painting of girls dancing against a Milky Way backdrop, the exhibit "African Cosmos: Stellar Arts" examines how African ...

A chromolithograph of the planet Jupiter, observed Nov. 1, 1880, at 9:30 p.m. The piece of art reveals Jupiter's Great Red Spot, akin to a hurricane on Earth, which has been raging on the planet for ...