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 ...

During his space walk on the fourth day of the Apollo 9 mission, Astronaut Russell Schweickart shot photos of Astronaut David Scott, who was standing in an open hatch of the command module (Gumdrop).

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 ...

New photos, shared by NASA, show the four astronauts being welcomed at the Johnson Space Center’s Ellington Field in Houston following the successful splashdown. But one photo of Ms Williams ...

After splashing down off the coast of Florida, the latest crew to return from the International Space Station arrived by jet in Houston. Welcome home to the members of Crew-9! NASA astronauts ...

Two astronauts who had been stranded on the International Space Station since last summer have finally returned to Earth after their initial week-long mission went awry. Sunita "Suni" Williams ...