Five Planets Line Up in the Night Sky Tonight
Photographers around the world may want to point their lenses to the western night sky tonight to capture a rare image of five planets lined up.
Photographers around the world may want to point their lenses to the western night sky tonight to capture a rare image of five planets lined up.
An intense electromagnetic storm created an awesome show of northern lights as far south as Arizona last week piquing the interest of photographers across North America.
Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Jason Guenzel teamed up to produce this stunning image of the Sun with a solar tornado spinning off it that's as tall as 14 Earths.
The Mars Perseverance Rover has captured images of rare, high-altitude noctilucent clouds shimmering over the Red Planet.
The "best ever" photograph of a UFO has resurfaced and now the hunt is on for the person who took what's known as the Calvine photo.
The people of Northern California were confused and slightly afraid after space junk re-entered the atmosphere blazing a trail in the night sky above.
NASA has released a stunning animation that maps gamma-ray light blasting across the universe over a period of one year.
The remains of a glacier on Mars have been discovered via the HiRISE camera attached to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. If the ice is confirmed, it would have significant implications for humans who may land there one day.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured what is known as a Wolf-Rayet star, the brief phase that comes just before it goes supernova. Due to how short the time is that a star is in this phase, it is one of the rarest astronomical observations.
NASA’s Mars helicopter drone has beamed back a rare pretty picture of a sunset on the Red Planet
The images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are increasingly being spoiled by thousands of satellites streaking through the sky.
A Japanese astronomer captured the moment a meteorite crashed into the Moon creating a flash of light and a new crater.
Unusual sand dunes have been spotted on Mars. Almost perfectly circular, planetary scientists have been left baffled as to what they are.
Space provides all kinds of photo opportunities and one astronaut took advantage of microgravity for this unique image.
The trailer for the first feature film shot entirely in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has been released by Russia.
A photographer captured Venus and Jupiter over a period of 10 days as they converged toward each other in the night sky, practically kissing one another at the apex.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has captured images of sun rays shining through the clouds at sunset, the first time this type of light has ever been observed on the Red Planet.
A supernova witnessed by Chinese astronomers in the year 185 A.D. has been captured by the Dark Energy Camera telescope.
Astronaut Josh Cassada captured this incredible photo of the aurora borealis this week from his perspective on the International Space Station (ISS), which gives some perspective of just how huge the phenomenon was.
The first time the public ever got to see a close-up image of Mars they were actually looking at a paint-by-numbers picture generated from the real photo's data.
Husband and wife photographer team Antoine and Dalia Grelin spent 81 hours capturing a photo of NGC 2264, a large and colorful nebula 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, not far from the famous Orion Nebula.
A photographer was shocked to capture the northern lights as far south as she was in Death Valley, California.
Now in its sixth year, the tenth data release from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys now covers half the sky and totals a petabyte of data combined from three separate telescopes.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been used to identify six galaxies that potentially emerged extremely early in the universe’s history and are so massive they should not be possible under the current cosmological theory.
Following the success of the "Ultimate Space Telescope" documentary, PBS's science series NOVA has released a second film titled "New Eye on the Universe" that aims to provide a better understanding of how James Webb is deepening the understanding of the universe.
An investigative filmmaker claims to have obtained a photo of a UFO taken by the U.S. military in an active conflict zone.
An astrophotographer has put together an awesome timelapse video of the green comet that passed through the solar system this past month.
New photos from Hubble show what scientists call "spokes" across Saturn's rings. First seen by NASA's Voyager in the 1980s, these spokes appear seasonally and scientists still can't fully explain them.
The James Webb Space Telescope has recently captured a large spiral galaxy that resembles Earth's own Milky Way Galaxy that exists a little over a billion light years away.
Two astrophotographers avoided a close encounter with a coyote in the Las Vegas desert as they captured a stunning image of a green comet and Mars together.
Three telescopes were pointed at the Sun to create this unique image that contains never-before-seen light.
A small asteroid lit up the skies of England and France exploding into a fireball as it fell into Earth's atmosphere.
Mysterious green laser beams that appeared over the night sky in Hawaii have been pinned on a Chinese satellite.
A satellite captured the moment a chunk of the Sun's northern pole broke off into a vortex, as scientists struggle to understand what is happening.
Noted astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has taken to social media to address some of the "drama" associated with his work.
An astrophotographer helped discover an oxygen nebula located next to the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way.
A documentary about renowned astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has been released on YouTube shining a light on how he captures phenomenal images.
The United States government is currently tracking what it describes as a Chinese "high-altitude surveillance balloon" as it floats over Montana.
NASA's Juno Spacecraft team is currently evaluating data to determine why a majority of photos captured by the JunoCam in its most recent flyby were "unusable." While similar to a previous glitch, this new one lasted much longer and resulted in the loss of 214 photos.
A swirling whirlpool appeared in the night sky above Hawaii earlier this month leaving researchers astonished.
A NASA satellite has captured an unusual object staring out from the surface of Mars -- a bear face.
A radar system less powerful than a household microwave has captured the highest-resolution pictures of the Moon ever captured from Earth.
A giant iceberg five times the size of Malta has broken away from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, satellite imagery shows.
A North Korean uranium mine used to help make nuclear bombs has partially collapsed with satellite photos showing the extent of the damage.
A photographer captured a rare and colorful nacreous cloud in the arctic stratosphere yesterday that are sometimes mistaken for the aurora lights.
With the goal of democratizing satellite images, SkyFi has launched a new app for iOS, Android, and web browsers that lets anyone access high-resolution photos of Earth quickly, easily, and affordably.
The James Webb Space Telescope has been used to identify a wide range of frozen gasses in a molecular cloud -- namely carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur molecules -- which are the building blocks of habitable worlds.
An astrophotographer has imaged the long-traveling comet that is currently making passage through the solar system, perfectly capturing its broken tail.
A stunning green comet will be visible from Earth in the coming days, even with the naked eye, giving photographers an opportunity to capture the comet that won't appear again for another 50,000 years.
Scientists have discovered an emperor penguin colony living in a remote region of Antarctica thanks to satellite imagery.
