Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...
For this, astronomers used two facilities: the Submillimeter Array (SMA), CfA's eight-dish collection of radio telescopes in ...
Astronomers spent a decade compiling this special image with the Hubble Space Telescope and then stitched together 600 photos to showcase over 200 million stars.
Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...
The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help solve the universe’s mysteries.
The risk of rogue rocket debris and other man-made space junk colliding with planes is a growing challenge that’s only going ...
NASA releases rare image of Mount Everest taken from space shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission in 1996, showcasing the ...
"I'll always remember the first time I saw those iridescent clouds and was sure at first it was some color artifact." ...