The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...

"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...

Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...

A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black hole, constantly emits light from its swirling accretion disk. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...