Here’s how it works. The dark hot spot in this false-color space wallpaper from NASA's Cassini spacecraft is a window deep into Jupiter's atmosphere. All around it are layers of higher clouds ...

Europe’s new space telescope Euclid has returned its first sparkling images of deep space ... Meanwhile, the red images below were captured by the Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer ...

allowing them to get a true sense of how dark it really is out there. While it would seem logical that deep space is pitch black, there is ample evidence of radiation in space, including gamma ...

Two threads of dark red interstellar dust cut across the galaxy’s disk, circling its central bulge. Relatively few cosmic neighbors are captured in the surrounding area of space. Related ...