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Stars are forming in the Soul of the Queen of Aethopia. More specifically, a large star forming region called the...

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with Crew-5 mission members aboard on Saturday, March 11, 2023....

What lies at the end of a rainbow? Something different for everyone. For the photographer taking this picture, for example,...

What lies at the bottom of Hyperion's strange craters? To help find out, the robot Cassini spacecraft that once orbited...

Put on your red/blue glasses and float next to asteroid 101955 Bennu. Shaped like a spinning toy top with boulders...

The irregular spiral galaxy NGC 5486 hangs against a background of dim, distant galaxies in this image from the NASA/ESA...

Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like The Great Nebula in Orion. Visible as a faint celestial smudge to the...

The Moon is seen passing in front of the Sun during a solar eclipse from Ross Lake, Northern Cascades National...

On the first planetary defense test mission from planet Earth, the DART spacecraft captured this close-up on 26 September 2022,...

Former astronaut Eileen Collins sits at the pilot’s station aboard space shuttle Discovery during a hotfiring procedure on Feb. 2,...

Where have all the dim stars gone? From many places on the Earth including major cities, the night sky has...

Infrared light surges out from the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27, in this Aug. 10, 2011, image from...

Is this a spiral galaxy? No. Actually, it is the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the largest satellite galaxy of our...

It was visible around the world. The sunset conjunction of Jupiter and Venus in 2012 was visible almost no matter...

What are those two bright spots? Planets. A few days ago, the two brightest planets in the night sky passed...

Venus and Jupiter may have caught your attention lately. The impending close conjunction of the two brightest planets visible in...

A NASA ER-2 high-altitude aircraft soars upward at the L.A. county airshow in this image from Mar. 25, 2023. via...

In 185 AD, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a new star in the Nanmen asterism. That part of the...