In the famous Pleiades star cluster, a star's light slowly destroys a passing cloud of gas and dust. The star,…
Soft hues, partially lit orbs, a thin trace of the ring and slight shadows highlight this understated view of the…
The first recorded eruption of Mount Belinda Volcano, on Montagu Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands, began in October…
A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a spider web of distorted background galaxies in the left-hand…
The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn's outstretched ring system in the infrared from a vantage point high above the planet's northern…
The Aura spacecraft, atop the Boeing Delta II rocket, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California on…
How do we know that dark matter isn't just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation of gravitationally magnified…
This 1963 photograph shows vent flowing cryogenic fuel and T/C Rake mounted on a 1/10 scale model Centaur rocket in…
On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and accompanying laborers, collectively known as the Virginia Company, made landfall…
Astronaut Steve Smith works on Hubble during STS-82, the second servicing mission in 1997, using a specially designed tool that…
