The Voyager probes are each turning off an instrument to avoid ending their 47-year-long missions later this year.

Learn about NASA's SPHEREx mission, which will launch on March 4, 2025 to study the universe's early history and search the ...

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

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

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

NASA astronaut Don Pettit captures a breathtaking photo of the Milky Way from the ISS, highlighting the stunning view of our ...

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

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

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

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

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

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