On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale ...

Gift your sweetheart a bouquet of brilliant stars this Valentine's Day with a multi-telescope image of a gorgeous nebula.

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The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

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 ...

A technique called sonification allows new discoveries, brings out subtleties in dense data, and makes astronomy more accessible.

NASA releases rare image of Mount Everest taken from space shuttle Columbia during the STS-80 mission in 1996, showcasing the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of the young star HH 30 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, revealing ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

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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.

The Nullarbor is riddled with wombat burrows. New research shows a way to detect these from space using high-resolution ...