From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

The US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NSF’s NOIRLab’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) spent the week of June 2–6 taking pictures of huge smoke clouds that could be seen from space. This was at a time when wildfires were raging in ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...

Hubble captures three infant stars lighting up a blue nebula, with a secret protostar forming in a shadowed disc below.

We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...

This is a reflection nebula, which means it doesn’t give off its own light but instead shines by reflecting the light of nearby stars. These types of nebulae glow softly when young stars nearby ...

This spectacular star-forming region is one of the first images from the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile.

The image reveals swirling gas and dust near the Tarantula Nebula-our nearby universe’s most prolific star factory, 160,000 ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has unveiled the very first “mega” images of the cosmos obtained thanks to the extraordinary features and wide-field view of its LSST camera—the largest ...

Rising 9.5 light-years high and 7,000 light-years away, this stunning pillar is captured in Hubble’s newly processed image ...