A creative photographer used ancient and mythical rocks as the basis of a 360-degree "stellar flower" image that shows the passage of day into night and the setting of Venus and the Moon.
Fresh satellite images of the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut lays bare the awful destruction that war has brought to the region.
ShadowCam recently grabbed a stunning shot of NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter as it orbited below KPLO.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists achieve another breakthrough. Solar system scientists working to understand the origins of Earth's abundant water have used Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument to confirm water vapor around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time.
Award-winning astrophotographer Mihail Minkov captured an incredible 360-degree panorama that shows two Milky Way arches, a shot only possible during a specific time.
Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy has captured a "GigaMoon" -- a 1.3-gigapixel highly-detailed image of the Moon made from 280,000 photos.
A terrestrial telescope has captured an incredible image of a young star shooting out matter like a water sprinkler 1,350 light-years from Earth.
Aurora-chasing photographers may want to pay attention this week after the Sun emitted a powerful solar storm directly at Earth.
A private astronaut and keen amateur photographer heading to space later this month has received photography training from prominent astronaut and astrophotographer Donald Pettit.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a stunning photo of Earth from its latest satellite imager that captures weather conditions in never-before-seen detail.
The James Webb Space Telescope has achieved another milestone by capturing an image of the first asteroid belt ever seen outside the Solar System.
Astrophotographer Bray Falls recently posted a series of striking images on Instagram that instantly caught PetaPixel's eye. Falls' photos aren't just visually stunning; they represent a brand-new discovery, a significant accomplishment for any astrophotographer.
NASA has released incredible new images of the shadowy region of the Moon's south pole. The detailed photos were captured by NASA's impressive ShadowCam instrument.
A team of scientists led by New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Center for Space Science has created a high-resolution map of Mars that holds great potential for researchers aiming to understand the red planet's history, and how its arid, barren landscape came to be.
NASA has released a guide to the night sky for May with the main opportunities for astrophotographers coming from planets rising in proximity to the Moon.
A photographer captured a full Moon framed inside Paris' iconic Arc de Triomphe -- a shot that took months of planning.
The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 33rd year in orbit around Earth. To celebrate this incredible milestone, the Hubble team has released an incredible photo of a nearby star-forming region, NGC 1333.
Radio astronomers have captured a novel wide-angle image of the famous giant black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87).
During its 51st flight, NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter snapped a striking shot of Mars, showing an apparent blue sky -- a far cry from the typical dusty, dull sky seen from Mars' surface -- and captured a special guest in the frame, the Mars Perseverance rover.
A lovable sloth named Gerard photobombed a major rocket launch in South America when he unexpectedly appeared on the livestream.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency has unveiled the most-detailed images ever of Deimos, the smaller and outermost of Mars' two natural satellites (the other is Phobos).
The Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was recently carried about 20.5 miles (32.9 kilometers) above Earth's surface on a massive NASA helium balloon, capturing the balloon-based telescope's first research images.
A viral photo has internet users scratching their heads as an apparent image of Earth taken from space isn't what it seems.
Skywatchers across the South Pacific witnessed a rare hybrid solar eclipse yesterday -- two eclipses in one.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (NGRST or Roman) will feature two primary instruments, a 300.8-megapixel infrared Wide Field Instrument (WFI) and a Coronagraph designed for studying faint objects, when it launches in 2027. The NASA Goddard team recently installed a vital subsystem for the space telescope's Wide Field Instrument.
A homemade motion detection camera has become the first instrument on Earth to capture NASA's enigmatic ICESat-2 satellite firing laser beams at Earth.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning "smash-up" of two spiral galaxies. Collectively called Arp 220, the collision of the pair of galaxies has facilitated massive star formation.
A space probe that will explore Jupiter and its moons beamed back farewell selfies with planet Earth in situ hours after it was successfully launched on Friday.
A photographer out capturing the aurora lights over Alaska on Saturday night was dumbfounded when a giant blue spiral appeared above him.
A team of researchers has developed a machine-learning technique to give the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole a new, sharper look.
