Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...

For our end-of-the-year Editors' Photo Challenge, we asked readers to share their best photos of 2024. Here are our favorites ...

In addition to livestacking, there are now “smart telescopes” available that will take and process images of the night sky as ...

Space Telescope Image: Hundreds of objects of varying colors, shapes, and sizes scattered across the dark space background. A yellow star at the center with a mottled gas and dust disk, transitioning ...

Space.com's 24 space images of 2024! The most awe-inspiring space photos of the year from our Space Images of the Day.

Horsehead Nebula: James Webb Space Telescope has captured ... constellation Coma Berenices is distorting the images of distant background galaxies into streaks and smears of light in this image ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) detected frozen water and other volatile compounds within a protoplanetary disk 1,300 light-years away in the Or ...

while carbonaceous chondrites have only 20–50% chondrules within a background matrix. Instead, Professor Guy Libourel and Dr. Anthony Seret, of France's Laboratoire Lagrange at the Université ...

The Night Market screen will have a special background image depending on the event's timing. For example, the Night Market's background in the image above has purple thorny vines and roses to ...

The outer edges of the disk are visible in silhouette against the glowing background of the Orion Nebula, creating ideal conditions to study the makeup of the disk. The research team detected a key ...

so much so that until quite recently the only way to see them was in silhouette against brighter background material. While not as splashy as their star-factory cousins, such as the Orion Nebula ...