The windows on the Orion spacecraft are already dirty. The four astronauts aboard Artemis II spend so much time pressing ...

Welcome to the Astronomy.com roundtable, where our editors help explain (and sometimes debate) hot topics. This week, however, we’re asking a question that’s more a matter of opinion. Astronomy.com: ...

On Friday morning, NASA shared a partial view of our bright blue planet as captured by Reid Wiseman, the mission’s commander.

Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain). Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble). This genuinely stunning and somehow very 80s tableau from the ...

Why it's so special: If you need an excuse to visit the Southern Hemisphere, the Hubble Space Telescope has just provided one. This spectacular new image, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, ...

The story behind the beautiful pictures beamed back to Earth from the Artemis II astronauts.

JWST snaps thousands of photos of our universe, from sparkling stellar nurseries to clusters of distant galaxies. But it takes human image processors, like Joe DePasquale, to turn these photos into ...

One ​​of the photos captured by Artemis II with its Nikon D5 is this beautiful image of Earth rising behind the Moon. It was taken in manual mode, with an 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 lens, ISO 400, and a ...

NASA Artemis II enters final phase as crew returns to Earth, sharing stunning Moon and Milky Way images before splashdown on ...

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