A dark, moonless sky is awash in light radiating from an aurora over Antarctica in a new image released by NASA. The satellite photo captures the aurora australis, or "southern lights," in the ...

Electric-blue noctilucent clouds shining over Antarctica on Nov. 26, 2016, as imaged by NASA’s AIM spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA/HU/VT/CU-LASP/AIM/Joy Ng, producer) ...

An animation based on data from NASA’s AIM spacecraft shows the sky over Antarctica glowing blue at the start of noctilucent cloud season in the Southern Hemisphere. The data were acquired by ...

TAMPA (CNN) — A spectacular aurora light show brightened up the night sky above China’s Zhongshan Research Station in Antarctica Friday. The aurora is a natural light phenomenon that occurs ...

An observatory in the heart of Antarctica could have the world’s clearest views of the night sky. If an optical telescope were built on a tower a few stories tall in the middle of the Antarctic ...

The best place in the world from which to look at the night sky is on top of a hill of ice in Antarctica called Dome A. The hill is one of the coldest locations on Earth.

March’s Night Sky Has a Haunting Orange 'Blood Moon,' Potential Auroras, and the First Lunar Eclipse Since 2022. We haven’t seen a lunar eclipse since November 2022 — here’s how to catch ...