These remarkable images, captured by NASA's advanced telescopes such as Hubble and the James Webb, showcase a variety of celestial bodies including nebulas, moons, stars, and planets.

The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

Mind-boggling beauty abounds in photographs from around the globe submitted to this year's Milky Way Photographer of the Year ...

A groundbreaking new supercomputer model shows how magnetic fields shape the turbulent flow of charged particles in space.

Monday’s single-sol plan included a marathon 45-meter drive (about 148 feet), which put us in position for two full sols of ...

This Hubble Space Telescope image features a remote galaxy, which appears as a red arc that partially encircles a foreground ...

There’s a direct historical line between Star Wars and He-Man, and Blackstar lands right in the middle ...

We like to believe that all this magic and creativity is due to our new and shiny tools and our modern way of thinking. But what if it was revealed that even the most daring marketing strategies have ...

But when scientists peer very far back, they find conundrums. JWST observations of the distant past are at odds with ...

On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Earth—our tiny blue dot in the galaxy—is approximately 26,000 light years away from a fascinating and active region of the ...