Space

Project Hail Mary has been a massive success, grossing $420.7 million so far. Part of the appeal is the incredible photography, which comes off effortlessly. But the cinematographer, Greig Fraser, says it was anything but.

Just a few hours after sharing the Artemis II crew's first photos of Earth, NASA shared two more photos captured by Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, this time showing the dark side of the Earth and Earth's Terminator Line, the constantly moving boundary that separates day and night.

Although the plan had been for NASA Artemis II astronauts to bring just Nikon D5 DSLR cameras with them to space, last-minute requests by the crew helped get a Nikon Z9 aboard Artemis II before it launched into space yesterday.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope joined forces to deliver the most comprehensive view of Saturn ever captured. JWST contributed infrared light data, peering at the planet's surface, while Hubble's visible light imagery showcases the gas giant's atmosphere and cloud cover. Together, the strikingly different views deliver a greater understanding of Saturn and fantastic portraits, no less.

The wheels are quite literally falling off NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover, which is still trundling over the Red Planet some 13 years after it was dropped off there.

A team of artists and scientists sent an evocative sculpture to space to capture jaw-dropping footage of a human form dancing in the stratosphere.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) built an ultraviolet camera for NASA's teeny-tiny SPARCS space telescope, which is about the size of a cereal box. The camera is searching the Milky Way Galaxy for habitable planets.

On Monday (March 16), the Sun fired off a coronal mass ejection (CME) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has now issued a geomagnetic storm warning for Thursday (March 19).

The world's largest all-lens telescope, MOTHRA (Massive Optical Telephoto Hyperspectral Robotic Array), is under construction in Chile and features 1,140 Canon EF 400mm f/2.8L IS telephoto lenses arranged in groups of 38 lenses across 30 different mounts.

Newly published high-resolution photos of Mars show some of the red planet's many craters in exceptional, colorful detail.

Astronaut Jessica Meir, who currently resides on the International Space Station, has shared a resplendent timelapse video of aurora lights dancing over Alaska and Canada.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) remarkable and relatively new Euclid space telescope teamed up with NASA and ESA's venerable Hubble Space Telescope (Hubble) to capture beautiful photos of the Cat's Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured plenty of incredible, jaw-dropping photos since its first five images were published in July 2022. But few have been quite as spectacular and otherworldly as Webb's latest shots of Nebula PMR 1, a rarely-studied nebula nicknamed the "Exposed Cranium."

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured the first-ever vertical photo of Uranus' ionosphere, revealing the mysterious planet's auroras.

A historically powerful nor'easter winter storm has begun hammering the northeastern United States, causing widespread power outages and putting nearly 60 million Americans under winter storm warnings. As bad as the situation is on the ground, it looks downright incredible from space, as new NASA and NOAA satellite photos demonstrate.

A NASA astronaut has shared a timelapse video taken during a rare "orbital cartwheel" when the International Space Station (ISS) changed its orientation and altitude to accommodate the SpaceX CRS-33 cargo resupply mission.

On February 28, there will be six planets visible in the evening sky, a full-blown planetary parade, at least for those with some special equipment and a bit of luck. However, some online discussions about the planetary parade are extremely misleading.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 safely docked with the International Space Station on Valentine's Day (Saturday) and the astronauts brought something unique with them: their smartphones.

With the Winter Olympics in full swing and hundreds of millions of people worldwide tuning into all the sporting action from Italy, the European Space Agency (ESA) delivered a very special look at different Winter Olympic venues using its Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission satellite.

Don Pettit is arguably the greatest photographer to ever go to space. A legend of astrophotography, his spectacular images have informed and entertained audiences for decades now. But one Reddit moderator isn't impressed.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (Chandra) teamed up to deliver a new image of an ancient, distant galaxy cluster in the midst of its initial formation only a billion years after the Big Bang. Scientists previously thought galaxy cluster formation this long ago was impossible.

Vaonis' new $99,000 Hyperia smart telescope with Canon optics is high-end astronomy gear with an astronomical price to match. Although designed primarily for educational institutions and museums, wealthy stargazers in the U.S. and the Middle East have already placed orders to get Hyperia's first deliveries in 2027.

For the first time, a single experiment combines four different methods of studying dark energy and the dark Universe. At the heart of the experiment is the 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera. Combined, the four experiments have delivered the clearest image yet of how dark energy shapes the Universe.

A Russian cosmonaut has captured dazzling aurora lights from onboard the International Space Station -- as a large coronal mass ejection (CME) supercharged auroras around the globe this week.

It's one of the most eye-catching objects in the Universe, but now astronomers have identified an unexpected structure inside the Ring Nebula.

ProGrade Digital, maker of memory cards, storage, and workflow solutions for photographers and other creatives, has entered into a Space Act agreement with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the agency's Artemis Moon missions with ProGrade Digital CFexpress Type B cards and readers.

Sunspot 4341 erupted yesterday afternoon, producing a super-powerful X-class solar flare that lasted for hours. The resulting radiation hit Earth's atmosphere, even causing a temporary radio blackout at short wavelengths. However, of much more interest to photographers is the solar flare's Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) that is headed toward Earth now. It may trigger a G4-class geomagnetic storm, which could, in turn, deliver incredible auroras as far south as California and even Alabama in the United States.

NASA is preparing for the likely loss of a long-running Mars orbiter after more than a month without contact.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope used its sophisticated aperture mechanism to capture unprecedented images of the heart of the Circinus Galaxy, providing astronomers with data unlike anything previously obtained and completely upending the understanding of super-bright infrared regions surrounding supermassive black holes.

Safely back on terra firma, NASA astronaut Don Pettit has been reviewing the hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of photographs he took during his most recent mission to space, Expedition 71/72.

New photos of one of the world's largest icebergs show it has turned bright blue, which, despite its beauty, is not good news for the once-great "megaberg."

A new NASA timelapse was two and a half decades in the making. What makes the timelapse of the Kepler Supernova Remnant even more spectacular is that it wasn't captured on Earth, but in space. The supernova remnant is a whopping 17,000 light-years away from Earth, or over 99 quadrillion miles.

French smart telescope company Vaonis has unveiled Hyperia, a professional observatory it developed alongside Canon.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its black-and-white navigation cameras to capture a panorama made up of photos taken at two different times of day on November 18, 2025. Although on the Red Planet, that time period spanned both the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian days, or sols.