The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

Jupiter's swirling, stormy atmosphere absolutely mesmerizes in a new time-lapse animation created by a group of amateur space photographers. To create a stunning video of the largest planet in the ...

You might think that the sky above is unchanging, at least on our human timescales, but that isn’t the case. The night sky is active and changing, and it’s visible even on scales of years. Recently, ...

Well, OK, not exactly. A beam of light could pass through air all day long (as long as you have a layer of air 26 billion kilometers long) and not deviate a whit. But if the density of that air ...

This is a time lapse of my pixel art / Animation "Frenetic". I edited out breaks and distractions, But otherwise this is the raw footage from start to finish over several days. (The pop-up windows are ...

NASA has released a time lapse video showing the discovery of exoplanets—planets beyond our solar system—since the first in 1992. The animation, from the space agency's Exoplanet Archive, was picked ...

Ben Canales is an amazing astrophotographer, specializing in time-lapse animations of the night sky (see, for example, this, this, and this). He recently got his hands on a Canon MH20f-SH: A ...

Satellite imagery can serve as a time machine, revealing dramatic change in just a few seconds — but can you imagine documenting almost three decades' worth of all that change, across most of our ...

The rapid decline of the British-Irish Ice Sheet thousands of years ago may hold lessons for how melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica will influence sea-level rise in the future. When you ...

The map-makers at the US Geological Survey and other federal scientific agencies have never met a geographical, disaster-filled database they didn’t love. Their latest and greatest hit is called ...