In 1983, Anna Fisher put on a spacesuit for what is now an iconic photo of one of the first U.S. women to fly into space. The black and white image caught Fisher's youthful optimism for the future ...

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 ...

From the vantage point of the photo, you are looking up and into High Bay 2 of the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Floridia. Once the most voluminous building 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 ...

That's because you can get the Netgear Meural Canvas II at Amazon for £599.99 (was £799.99) – which is a huge deal for a truly massive 27-inch digital photo frame. (Not in the UK? Scroll down ...

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 ...