Space

An extremely bright meteor lit up the night sky over Japan on Tuesday night. It could be seen from hundreds of miles away.

A team of scientists led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) discovered a new moon orbiting the ice giant planet, Uranus, using the James Webb Space Telescope.

DarkSky International announced the winners of its fifth annual Capture the Dark photography contest. Winners across eight main categories showcase the best in astrophotography and demonstrate why it is vital to protect dark skies worldwide.

Clear days on Mars don’t come around often. Most of the time a steady haze of dust hangs in the air, giving the Red Planet its signature rusty glow.

A meteorite that was captured on video in broad daylight and that punctured a homeowner's roof is thought to be 4.56 billion years old -- older than Earth itself.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured photographs of a rock on Mars that closely resembles coral found on Earth.

Insta360 announced the X5 Satin White Limited Edition 360-degree camera, a sleek new design for its flagship camera. To mark the occasion and test new accompanying neutral density (ND) filters, Insta360 promptly launched its white X5 camera into the upper stratosphere, nearly 25 miles above Earth's surface.

The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) newest images offer a dazzling preview of the Sun's eventual fate.

Floating 258 miles above, NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station have a view like no other and can therefore photograph Earth in unique ways.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory may be relatively old space observatories, but that doesn't stop them from making groundbreaking cosmological discoveries. The two telescopes just spotted an extremely rare type of black hole currently eating a star in space.

The Juno probe has been capturing spectacular images of Jupiter since 2016. However, it recently encountered problems that required NASA to perform a camera repair on JunoCam from 370 million miles away.

An international team of astronomers captured direct evidence of the filaments that weave an interconnected web throughout the cosmos.

Astronomers have captured remarkable images that may show, for the first time, a distant new planet being born.

A massive filament of plasma was explosively ejected from the Sun's surface on July 15, leaving behind a "canyon of fire" on the Sun's surface that spans 250,000 miles (over 402,000 kilometers).

A group of astrophotographers has created the world's largest remote observatory, Starfront Observatories, enabling fellow photographers to photograph the cosmos under remarkably dark, clear skies in rural Texas from anywhere in the world.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe performed the closest-ever pass by the Sun late last year, and NASA has just released the remarkable images from the historic fly-by.

NASA astronaut Nichole 'Vapor' Ayers captured a spectacular image of a sprite, a rare form of lightning that shoots up from a thunderstorm.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory combined their efforts to look at the Bullet Cluster in a new way, enabling scientists to precisely map the cluster's dark matter.

The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) latest target is Messier 82 (M82), also known as the Cigar Galaxy. The nearby galaxy is five times more luminous than the Milky Way. It has previously been photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, providing a great way to measure the two active space telescopes against each other.

Astrophotographers are a passionate bunch, and they now have a new dedicated social media and web platform to share their work, find inspiration, and learn how to improve their craft. Picastro is all about showcasing genuine astronomy images from astrophotographers worldwide, whether they are beginners or seasoned pros.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured what scientists believe is its first photograph of an exoplanet. If the findings are confirmed, it would mark the first time Webb discovered a planet through a direct image and the lightest planet ever seen using this imaging technique outside the solar system.

The Landsat 7 satellite has signed off on its 25 years of taking photos of Earth with one last image of Las Vegas showing that the City of Sin has almost doubled in size since the spacecraft first snapped it 25 years ago. Since its launch on April 15, 1999, Landsat 7 has captured over 3.3 million images, including the first image of Las Vegas, which was captured in July 1999.

Swedish photographer and amateur astronomer Peter Rosén has created an incredible new video that combines thousands of photos of Jupiter to show the gas giant's newly developed massive storms.


It's a day of firsts for incredible new scientific missions. The European Space Agency's (ESA) new Biomass mission, launched into orbit just two months ago, has returned its first set of incredible images of Earth.

Researchers have captured the first-ever image of every single satellite streak blocking out the Arctic sky on one night.

Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) observed the nearby Sculptor Galaxy in thousands of colors simultaneously, capturing a breathtakingly colorful and detailed image that reveals never-before-seen cosmic details.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) historic Proba-3 mission, designed to create and study solar eclipses in orbit, has successfully made its first artificial eclipse in space, and the images are breathtaking.

A new ultra-black paint may offer a practical solution to the growing problem of light pollution caused by satellites.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that its Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's poles from outside the ecliptic plane, or the plane that contains the Earth's orbit around the Sun.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first photographed the Sombrero galaxy late last year. Months later, the $10 billion space telescope has set its sights back on the galaxy, this time at different wavelengths of light, completing a mind-bending photo of Sombrero's galactic disk.

NASA is planning to construct a large, autonomous radio telescope on the dark side of the Moon, aiming to save humanity's view of the universe from Earth-orbiting satellites.

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)'s new "Picture of the Month" shows the mega-monster galaxy cluster Abell S1063. This impressive collection of galaxies is about 4.5 billion light-years from Earth in the constellation Grus (the Crane). However, surrounding Abell S1063 is the true star of the show -- super-distant, ancient galaxies whose light is being warped by the gravitational force of the relatively closer Abell S1063.

A coronal mass ejection (CME) is headed straight for Earth per NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Space Weather Prediction Center. Astrophotographers should charge their camera batteries, check weather conditions for tomorrow, and prepare for what could be the biggest auroral event of the year.

A global team of astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope discovered a bizarre star that acts unlike any star seen before.

Inside a nondescript building on an industrial site outside of Cologne, Germany, there is a recreation of the Moon's surface, allowing astronauts to practice, among other things, taking photos on the Moon.