NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

The Mars rover captured images of low ridges called boxwork patterns, which appear like spiderwebs from space.

Sweeping views of nebulae and dancing galaxies prove the telescope’s enormous field of view and ultra-high-res capabilities.

In just over 10 hours of test observations, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured millions of celestial objects, opening the ...

NASA has captured a breathtaking image of Arsia Mons, one of Mars' most massive volcanoes, towering nearly twice the height of any mountain on Earth. Captured at dawn by the 2001 Mars Odyssey ...

Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents the—often spirited—debates that lead each week to a design seen by millions of people. Sign up to receive Cover Story.

The Curiosity Mars rover covers a lot of ground for a robot that only moves at a max speed of .1 mph. A photo snapped recently by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter provides a pretty cool ...

Of course, no images of Nessie were found, nor what triggered the camera to take its photos. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool that the camera trap performed its task, and was recoverable 55 years on.

The cover story in this month’s issue of National Geographic explores how origami, a centuries-old art of paper folding, is being put to use to blaze new trails in science and technology ...

ESA/CLS/LEGOS, CC BY-SA “This image,” writes Bamber, “shows mean sea level trends over 13 years in which the global average rise was about 3.2mm a year.