Now NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense are preparing to do that again in support of the space agency's upcoming Artemis 2 mission, which will fly four astronauts around the moon before ...

The SMC is close to the bigger Large Magellanic Cloud and is best seen from November to January — unless you're the Hubble Space Telescope, which recently zoomed in on the SMC to reveal its ...

A conception of the James Webb Space Telescope orbiting 1 million miles from Earth. Credit: NASA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez Space is phantasmagorical. Astronomers using the powerful ...

Back on Feb 7, 1984, McCandless approached his maximum distance from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger, which saw him totally untethered in the vast cosmos - a first in history. Advert In ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The cyan or light blue areas seen on the right-side image of Neptune are an auroral glow ...

Photo shows Plants for Space researcher Leni Campbell-Clause turns away from the microscoope to look at the camera. When astronauts are orbiting earth, it's often not chocolate they crave but a ...

We hope you enjoy this week's "Framing Richmond: Sunday photo gallery." As you can see, the cherry blossom are starting to bloom in Richmond. This week, several photographers also found "Canada Rocks" ...

Another image from Blue Ghost shows darkness falling over the moon as Earth and Venus look on. (Image credit: Firefly Aerospace) Sunsets are much rarer on the moon than they are on Earth. Because ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data on Wednesday (March 19), including a preview of its deep fields revealing hundreds of thousands of galaxies ...