Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” when he was 36 — in June 1889, near the end of his life, which ended in suicide a year later.

Researchers replaced the night sky in the painting with simulated supersonic turbulence, processed to resemble the original painting. Now, a new study in the journal Physics of Fluids tries to ...

With the wind tunnel ALE has produced an apparent magnitude -1. Siruis, the brightest star in the night sky, has an apparent magnitude of -1.5, meaning that the shooting stars will be visible from ...

The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift" ...

Gavin’s carpet motif was also translated into a painting, Untitled (Sky), where the narcissus blooms appear as stars ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

Researchers have uncovered the earliest-known depiction of the Milky Way in coffin art depicting the Egyptian sky goddess Nut ...

Fireworks illuminate the night sky over the Yodogawa River in Osaka on Aug. 27. (Video by Takanobu Sasaki) The spectacular Naniwa Yodogawa Fireworks Festival is held for the first time in three ...