The transition from winter to spring has a special treat in store for stargazers: An eerie celestial glow known as “zodiacal light” may be visible in our darkest night skies during the coming ...

It actually crept up on me with no advance notice. Related: Zodiacal light: how to see the mysterious glow It was around 3 a.m. when rather near to the eastern horizon I noticed some sort of a ...

NASA's new PUNCH spacecraft captured colorful images of the zodiacal light while testing out their sun-watching instruments.

Have you ever seen the zodiacal light? It is one of the most remarkable features of the solar system, yet most astronomers have never observed it. I’ve been an amateur astronomer all my life ...

It’s called “zodiacal light,” and for a long time it was thought to be the result of cosmic dust left in the Solar System by asteroids and comets. Now a team of scientists have come up ...

For the next two weeks, the faint glow of the zodiacal light may be visible in the eastern sky just before dawn. What do the prophet Muhammad and Queen’s guitarist Brian May have in common?

That thin lucence is called the Zodiacal light. Over the opposite side of the night horizon is another just perceptible glow rarely perceived called the Gegenschein, or counterglow. In the tropics ...

The origins of the zodiacal light have long been debated, with the first modern studies dating back to the 17th century. Italian astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini (the same man who inspired the ...

The Pleiades star cluster and bright Jupiter appear about halfway up inside the zodiacal light's "pointed finger." Orion is to the left. For a brightness comparison, the faint winter Milky Way ...

Mars is also suggested as a source. The dust particles, though very tiny, are also very reflective. Light from the Sun can reflect off the zodiacal dust and can occasionally be seen here under special ...