A camera onboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently caught sight of curious markings stretching across the Tunisian desert — symbols so distinct that they resemble writing carved into the sand.
Don Pettit touched back down on Earth on Saturday -- the day of his 70th birthday -- after spending the last six months living in the International Space Station (ISS). Pettit is one of the most accomplished photographers to ever visit space and captured some special shots during Expedition 72.
Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere, or PUNCH, is a spacecraft array that has sent its first photos back after its launch into polar orbit on March 11. The goal of the mission is to examine how solar corona transitions into solar wind, which is what is visible as auroras on Earth.
NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his incredible astrophotography, sense of humor, and clever camera contraptions, is scheduled to return to Earth this month after a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Before leaving space, Pettit shared some of the awesome science he has done as part of Expedition 72.
Amazing drone footage captured the moment a reusable rocket used for the celebrity-packed Blue Origin suborbital mission landed perfectly on a touchdown pad.
The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) new mid-infrared image of the planetary nebula NGC 1514, which shows a dying heart at its center ejecting vast quantities of gas and dust, is spectacular in itself. It's also an incredible example of how far space telescope imaging technology has come compared to the same object imaged by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in 2010.
Mars was captured rising above the lunar surface after it was occulted by the Moon on January 13, in a newly-released image.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a giant star's final moments. The striking image looks like a swirling painting rather than a star's death throes, which are very long to human observers but a cosmic blink.
A giant "wormhole" that appeared in the skies of Alaska a couple of weekends ago may have worried some folks on the ground. They needn't have feared, it was actually a successful science experiment.
NASA’s Perseverance rover, a robotic explorer on Mars, has captured a rare spectacle of two dust devils battling for domination, as one consumes the other.
American astronaut and chemical engineer Don Pettit is celebrated for his orbital astrophotography created during long-duration stays aboard the International Space Station. His latest footage shows beautiful views of the Northern Lights from space.
12 million light-years from Earth, a hungry supermassive black hole is messily eating space matter and spitting it back out again into the Universe.
A NASA photographer has captured a heroic portrait of astronaut Zena Cardman -- who is due to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year -- in a callback to an iconic portrait of fellow astronaut Anna Fisher.
An international team of astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) located a gargantuan spiral galaxy located about 11.7 billion light-years away. This colossal spiral galaxy, aptly nicknamed "Big Wheel," is about five times more massive than the Milky Way galaxy.
The astronauts currently orbiting both polar regions -- the first humans to ever do so -- are asking for help from photographers on terra firma.
Alongside capturing auroras on Neptune for the first time , the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) also broke novel "ground" recently for its spectacular new image of an Einstein ring.
A crew of astronauts have become the first-ever people to orbit over Earth's north and south poles and they have done so with an incredible view thanks to the cupola installed on their spacecraft.
A pair of astrophotographers teamed up with scientists to help them solve the mystery of "sprite fireworks."
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured images of auroral activity on Neptune for the first time.
"Space is hard," says an aerospace engineer commenting on a rocket launch video that ends with it exploding into smithereens. But as Dr. Chris Combs also points out, "This is the most picturesque launch failure video I've ever seen."
There were mixed weather conditions along the northeast coast of North America for the partial solar eclipse on Saturday but some photographers still came away with spectacular photos.
Not long after the Blood Moon lunar eclipse, photographers can gear up for yet another eclipse tomorrow -- this time it's a solar one.
Award-winning astrophotographer Mihail Minkov recently returned home to Bulgaria following an incredible 20-day journey across South America, where Minkov visited some of the world's most spectacular locations with the darkest skies.
A European Space Agency probe has captured a rare view of Mars' outermost and more mysterious moon, Deimos.
The Blue Ghost lunar lander's mission may have ended, now resting lifeless on the Moon’s surface, but its success has secured its place in history.
A large glowing spiral swirl was spotted floating across the skies of Europe last night. It is believed to have been caused by a frozen plume of fuel that emanated from a SpaceX rocket launch.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's latest image combines the work of two different instruments that captured photos of a sparkling spiral galaxy and a prominent star more than 20 years apart.
For this week's historical Friday feature, we are traveling to space to recap remarkable video and photographs showing a NASA astronaut flying untethered miles above Earth that have recently caught the imagination of Reddit.
A proposed green hydrogen production facility in Chile’s Atacama Desert may significantly impact one of the world’s most important astronomical observatories, a new study has found.
The first survey data from the 600-megapixel Euclid space telescope is available now. The European Space Agency (ESA)'s data release features classified, detailed images of 380,000 galaxies and provide a look at the large-scale organization of the Universe's cosmic web. Euclid observed 26 million galaxies in total in just one week.
