NASA astronaut Don Pettit imaged the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as the International Space Station cruised 260 miles ...

A study of supernova remnant SNR 0519-69.0 using the Chandra X-ray telescope, Hubble and more has narrowed down its age to ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A new photograph shared by NASA offers a peek at the breathtaking views seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The ...

On his fourth flight, Don Pettit is once again sharing the art of astrophotography, capturing and posting pictures of Earth, ...

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.

Twinkling Open Cluster NGC 2002: A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC ...

Hubble images reveal cosmic wonders, from Jupiter's storms to starbirth nebulae, galaxy mysteries, Saturn’s portrait, comet ...

A supernova is a cosmic event in which a star destroys itself in an explosion which can briefly become as luminous as an ...

A bird that mimicked a black hole. The astronomer who discovered microwave ovens. A telescope that can fly. The science of ...