From the huge smoke plume seen from the LA wildfires to a new sweeping view of Earth, these space images will give you a new ...

Ever seen a sunrise from the moon? These space images will leave you marveling at our planet and our universe.

Since its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been at the forefront of astronomical observation, and with the upcoming China Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), scientists continue to ...

M82 has been a popular target for astronomers and their telescopes, due to its high activity. Hubble has observed it many ...

Hubble’s latest image captures a glittering star cluster inside the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years from Earth. This region, known as N11, is one of the galaxy’s ...

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

Discovery has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum for more than a decade. Now, Senators Ted ...

Hubble observations show a white dwarf star shredding and accreting a volatile-rich, Pluto-like body 260 light-years away. The discovery suggests icy worlds can survive stellar death and hints at our ...

UCLA and UC San Diego grad Megan McArthur retires at 54 after two decades with NASA. The space and ocean scientist's work puts her in an elite group of explorers.

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...

Megan McArthur retired after a career that included traveling into space twice and becoming the first woman to pilot the SpaceX Dragon reusable spacecraft.

McArthur launched on two spaceflights, logging 213 days in orbit across her nearly 25 years, and held leadership positions at ...