NASA's longtime Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere tomorrow, November 4. While most of the telescope will burn up as it careens through the atmosphere, NASA says it expects some components to survive and potentially even cause harm, although that outcome is exceedingly unlikely.
A photographer captured a rare shot of the International Space Station (ISS) as it whizzed past Jupiter.
What better way to celebrate Halloween than with a ghostly cat comprised of a nebula? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope joined forces to capture the Cat's Head Nebula.
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released a high-resolution image of China’s secretive space plane taken by a satellite.
The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) newest Picture of the Month shows what the European Space Agency (ESA) describes as a "turbulent cauldron of star formation." The star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, also known as N159, is located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).
Astrophotographer Evan McKay has been named Photographer of the Year in the 2026 Astrophotography Prize, taking the competition’s highest honour with his image, Cathedral Cove, New Zealand. He took home $3,000.
A farmer in western Minnesota discovered an approximately 11-foot-wide metallic object in his cornfield that authorities believe may have come from space.
Ever since capturing my solar eclipse timelapse, I’ve wanted to explore and refine the technique. There were quite a few takeaways from that previous project in terms of settings and best practices, so I’m carrying those lessons into this next one.
French smart telephoto brand Vaonis has announced the Atlas. This new modular smart telescope promises the versatility of an interchangeable lens camera -- Vaonis says "DSLR" -- and the ease of use of the company's other smart telescopes.
NASA has released a series of show-stopping photos showing a "space jellyfish" hanging over the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has officially set a new record for the most distance driven by any vehicle on another world's surface.
The Curiosity Rover is on a roll: NASA has released another stunning panorama captured by the extraterrestrial vehicle that shows distant cliffs shaped by wind over billions of years.
NASA has released an image of the dark side of the Moon complete with handwritten annotations made by the Artemis II crew who were observing it at the time.
A photographer has captured a magnificent timelapse of the Milky Way above New York City using infrared camera equipment.
Scientists using the Gemini North telescope in Hawai'i captured a new photo of Pa 30, a supernova remnant believed to be the remains of a supernova that people witnessed in August 1181.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has marked 5,000 Martian days on the Red Planet with a new panorama captured from a sandy ridge known as “Chocolatal.”
January is widely considered the bleakest month of the year, and astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who is putting together his cosmic calendars for 2027, chose the first month to feature an unnerving glimpse into the future.
A photographer spent the past two years dreaming of a special image of the total solar eclipse that took place in Spain this summer. She has finally completed her masterful work.
The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Picture of the Month is among the best and most powerful examples of gravitational lensing ever seen.
These fascinating satellite photos show enormous data centers being built over the last couple of years.
NASA scientists have published before-and-after photos of a newly formed crater on the Moon that provides an unusually detailed view of what happens when a large object strikes the lunar surface.
Photographer Ali Alobaidly won this year's Royal Observatory Greenwich ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year 18 competition. Alobaidly's incredibly detailed, ethereal photo of the predator-like Shark Nebula earned the photographer a £10,000 prize, equivalent to nearly $13,400.
NASA's new 300-megapixel telescope, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, launched on August 30, 2026. NASA says Roman's Wide Field Instrument (WFI) has been woken up to begin testing procedures one million miles away from Earth at the second Lagrange point, better known as L2.
NASA's Curiosity Rover, which has been exploring the surface of Mars for the past 14 years, continues to come across interesting objects, like last month when it photographed what looks a bit like a footprint.
Over the past 15 years, cities at night around the world have undergone a transformation: instead of being bathed in warm, orange sodium vapor light, they're now lit up by brighter, white LED lights.
The latest ESA/Webb Picture of the Month captures the irregular galaxy Arp 263 in infrared light, showing the very odd final phase of a long-past galactic merger.
Photographers don't always need to go to great lengths for great pictures; sometimes it's about making the most of where you are. Case in point: Andrew McCarthy's latest shot of a Blood Moon eclipse.
NASA's cutting-edge Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched this morning aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, beginning a million-mile journey with the goal of solving some of the many mysteries of dark energy and the origins of the Universe itself.
A photo taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover a few years ago has resurfaced online, and that's because it shows something strange on the horizon.
DJI mounted an Osmo Action 6 camera to a rocket ship, filming its ascent into near-space and back down again.
New satellite images show an ice island about the size of Manhattan breaking away from a Greenland glacier, marking the largest loss of floating ice there in over 10 years.
60 years ago, a robotic spacecraft captured the first Earthrise photo -- a stunning view that the Artemis II crew recreated earlier this year.
DarkSky International's Capture the Dark 2026 photo contest undoubtedly featured some beautiful photos of the night sky captured by talented photographers. However, since the winners were unveiled last week, controversy has reared its ugly head.
The atmosphere-less Moon is frequently bombarded by meteors, asteroids, and comets, and now it can add another item to that list: SpaceX rockets.
DarkSky International has announced the winners of its nighttime photography contest, Capture the Dark 2026. This year's contest, its sixth annual edition, drew a record number of entries from photographers in over 30 countries.
Satellites captured the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in spectacular fashion.
Photographers from all over the world traveled to Europe last night for a stunning total solar eclipse.
Although fortunate photographers in a narrow swath of Europe are being treated to a total solar eclipse today, everyone in the Northern Hemisphere (and the very northern part of the Southern Hemisphere) can enjoy the annual Perseids Meteor Shower right now. The meteor shower peaks tonight.
Nearly 49 years after it launched into space aboard a Titan III rocket, NASA's Voyager 2 space probe received yet another software update, this time reaching the speeding probe from nearly 13.3 billion miles (almost 21.4 billion kilometers) away.
Scientists have used a pair of NSF NOIRLab telescopes for 13 years to create the new DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys map. It is the largest 2D map ever of the Universe and covers three-quarters of the sky. The catalog has nearly four billion objects.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured beautiful new photos of the Lion Nebula, NGC 2392, demonstrating its imaging prowess compared to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope.
The first photos of the impact crater left on the Moon after an out-of-control SpaceX spacecraft crashed into its surface last week have emerged.
The newest NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month delivers a spectacularly colorful look at a cosmic "Treasure Chest," a neat feature of the nearby Carina Nebula, located just 7,500 light-years away.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z instrument to photograph Earth as it passed behind the Martian moon, Phobos.
Astronaut Don Pettit takes photos so good that people have a hard time believing they are real. Case in point, a stunning image of the Milky Way Galaxy as the Earth zooms below Pettit's International Space Station vantage point.
A NASA satellite has captured a striking image of a fractured Antarctic landscape that appears to resemble a hummingbird.
In March, the Einstein Probe, a satellite made by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in partnership with the European Space Agency, detected a very brief flash of "soft X-rays" emitted by a galaxy about 500 million light-years away. Within an hour, ground-based telescopes, including several at National Science Foundation (NSF) NOIRLab facilities, began investigating the region, getting a front-row seat to bombastic and very special star death.
Astronaut Anil Menon has only been in space for less than one month, but he has already captured a mind-boggling photo showing a super typhoon brooding above the Pacific Ocean.
Trundling around on an alien planet some 140 million miles from Earth is the solar system's most intrepid landscape photographer, snapping awe-inspiring shots as it scrambles up a mountain that's inside a crater.
A new image from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's 3200-megapixel LSST camera features hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies across its many pixels, delivering a spectacular view of one of the most observed patches of the Universe.
