The latest visitor from deep space is leaving a mark that stretches far beyond its icy core. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is ...

Don Pettit is on a roll. Just days after sharing a breathtaking shot of Earth, the American astronaut has followed up with an equally stunning shot of a waning crescent moon, or, as Pettit put it: “a ...

On a flyby of Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the first visible light images of the cloudy planet’s surface from space, a new study reports. The nightside view of the extremely hot surface ...

There's a fire in the sky, and it's not because of the Dragon in sight. NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured both an aurora and a docked SpaceX Dragon spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) ...

In 2017, astronomers captured the first image of a black hole by coordinating radio dishes around the world to act as a single, planet-sized telescope. The synchronized network, known collectively as ...

James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week Ethereal structure in the sky rivals 'Pillars of Creation' — Space photo of the week ...

A viral tweet claims new XRISM images show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS glowing like a spaceship engine, fuelling speculation that it may be an alien probe. Here is the truth behind the theory and what ...

Space images never get old, do they? To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory being launched into space, NASA has published 25 brand new images snapped by the telescope — ...

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