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To some, the dark shape looks like a mythical boogeyman. Scientifically, Lynds' Dark Nebula (LDN) 1622 appears against a faint...

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss...

Astronaut Nicole Mann is pictured during her first spacewalk installing a modification kit on the International Space Station's starboard truss...

If you could stand on exoplanet LHS 475 b, what might you see? No one knows for sure but pictured...

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has obtained an in-depth inventory of the deepest, coldest...

Two galaxies are squaring off in Virgo and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, the stars that...

Raise your arms if you see an aurora. With those instructions, two nights went by with, well, clouds -- mostly....

Comet C/2022E3 (ZTF) is no longer too dim to require a telescope for viewing. By January 19, it could just...

Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are pictured on...

The two dominant galaxies near center are far far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the...

A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular...

Snow and ice cover mountains of the Tien Shan range in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS)...

Gravitational lensing by the galaxy cluster MACS0647 -- in which the massive foreground cluster distorts and lenses the light emitted...

Snoopy, the zero gravity indicator that flew aboard Orion during the Artemis I mission, wears a smile after being unpacked...

Why are there oxygen-emitting arcs near the direction of the Andromeda galaxy? No one is sure. The gas arcs, shown...

Our Moon doesn't really look like this. Earth's Moon, Luna, doesn't naturally show this rich texture, and its colors are...

This is the mess that is left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula, the result of a supernova seen...

Perihelion for 2023, Earth's closest approach to the Sun, was on January 4 at 16:17 UTC. That was less than...