In photos The details in this photograph include the airglow of the atmosphere dividing Earth from space — yellow-green at an altitude of 75 miles and a faint reddish hue 250 miles above the ...

The way that Hubble images are produced is similar to how the James Webb Space Telescope uses filters and combines these to create stunning pictures of otherwise invisible objects, a process which ...

On May 7, 2025, space scientists released a visualization of images captured by NASA's James Webb Telescope showing the so-called 'cosmic cliffs'. This impressive spectacle is located within the ...

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

WASHINGTON – Jupiter's dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James ...

Credit: Rachel Bigsby/Laura Knowles/The National Trust/Cover Images The 2025 puffin count is underway on the Farne Islands as conservationists from the National Trust aim to tot them up among 200,000 ...

The Rho Ophiuchi nebula system is the closest star-forming region to Earth, and as such has come under the scrutiny of both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope in recent ...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, en route to Jupiter's icy ocean moon Europa, recently captured a ghostly infrared portrait ...

What can the largest geomagnetic storm in decades teach scientists about extreme solar activity and how to prepare for it?

Titan is a strange world, at -300 degrees Fahrenheit, and shrouded in a jaundiced smog. Similar to Earth, the atmosphere is ...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they ...