Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the cosmos, but few images manage to capture the vastness of space quite like ...

Milky Way photography can yield some stunning shots from here on Earth. But what if you had a vantage point at some 400km ...

In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

These stunning celestial formations, captured using advanced space telescopes, reveal intricate details of stars at various ...

Unlike the typical blue-and-green depiction of Earth, this photo shows the planet in a mossy green hue, framed by a thin ...

This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned astronaut and a pretty good photographer, used a camera with low-light and ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

Recently, over 20 passionate photographers from YL Camera and Sony set off on a three-day, two-night Milky Way photography ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it ...

The Milky Way is seen side on so we see across its diameter ... Don Pettit I'd love to know more details on this specific shot. But like other images that Don has captured from the ISS, it ...