What can you see in the night sky this season? The featured graphic gives a few highlights for Earth's northern hemisphere.

What's happening between those mountains? A rocket is being launched to space.

Do black holes glow when they collide? When merging, co-orbiting black holes are sure to emit a burst of unusual gravitational radiation, but will they emit light, well before that, if they are surrounded by gas?

The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts.

The highest peak on planet Earth is framed in this mountain and night skyscape.

Ice is forming on the river Lielupe as it flows through the landscape in this winter's night scene.

Cosmic dust clouds are draped across a rich field of stars in this broad telescopic panorama near the northern boundary of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown.

This cosmic close-up looks deep inside the Soul Nebula.

Welcome to Mars, NASA Insight. Yesterday NASA's robotic spacecraft InSight made a dramatic landing on Mars after a six-month trek across the inner Solar System.

Have you ever seen a rocket launch -- from space? A close inspection of the featured time-lapse video will reveal a rocket rising to Earth orbit as seen from the International Space Station (ISS).