Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) often share breathtaking views of Earth, but one recent photograph ...
By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...
The clip was recorded by NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson while she was on a 7-hour spacewalk with fellow astronaut Shane Kimbrough.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous Event seen above a thunderstorm over Mexico and the Desert Southwest earlier in ...
The image was taken by GOES-19, the newest in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite series operated by NOAA.
The Optical Engineering plenary held 5 August at SPIE Optics + Photonics 2025 in San Diego, between 3-7 August, contributed both some ruggedness and a little sparkle to the week’s proceedings.
This amazing astronaut photo shows the bizarre whale-like shape of a Belizean tropical island. The coral-reef-covered structure is home to the Great Blue Hole, one of the deepest marine sinkholes on ...
Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign. Whether you care about horoscopes or not, you probably know your zodiac sign. You’ve ...
A pair of once-in-a-lifetime comets are rocketing through our skies right now, and it's a rare treat because they won't be back for hundreds of years. The comets, C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 ...
September's partial solar eclipse was not just caught by eager skywatchers on Earth but also by satellites orbiting high above. A striking view of the partial solar eclipse that happened on September ...