Why it's so special: This iconic montage features images of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune captured between 2014 and 2024 as part of the Hubble Space Telescope's Outer Planet Atmospheres ...

Why it's so special: This stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope depicts a star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short. Characterized by its "wings," it is classified as ...

(Stoke Space Photo) Stoke Space successfully hotfired its first-stage rocket engine on a new vertical test stand at the company’s Moses Lake, Wash., facility on Wednesday in what was called ...

Don Pettit has a long history of inventing new tools for use in space. Astronauts are many things. They're often scientists, engineers, or pilots. And in the case of NASA astronaut Don Pettit, he ...

"Development of this robotic technology may increase the lifespan of satellites and enable the removal of space debris," NASA officials said in the statement releasing the new photo.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has started 2025 with a stunning Earth photo that he described as a “New Year’s light show.” Pettit captured the amazing image from the International Space Station ...

and on the NASA WB-57 research aircraft flying out of Houston (for the April 2024 eclipse). For more sublime space images, check out our Space Photo of the Week archives.

Snapped in low Earth orbit by private space company Astroscale, the unprecedented image is the first close-up photo of an individual piece of space debris ever taken. It shows the spent upper ...

(Longer exposures let in more light, or in this case, fainter stars.) RELATED STORIES: — SpaceX's 6th Starship megarocket launch looked amazing from space in astronaut and camera views (photo, video) ...

It was a big year for space. The past year was a big one for space. Skywatchers across the United States witnessed a total solar eclipse, SpaceX caught a giant rocket out of mid-air with a pair of ...

On Wednesday, Mukuku Village in Kenya got an unexpected visitor from space. At about 3 p.m. local time, a large metallic ring weighing about 1,100 pounds and measuring 8 feet in diameter crash ...

But there's something strange about the photo: The surface of Earth is blurred ... He's brought with him to space a homemade star tracker, a device that rotates a camera to compensate for the ...