Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. This image composite compares visible-light and infrared views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of the glowing ...

Need a break from all the breaking news just to marvel at our small, delicate world? There's always something happening in space, and humanity is documenting it more quickly and clearly than ever ...

The Lagoon Nebula and the Trifid Nebula above the Pterosaur-Yardang Dahaidao Scenic Area in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on Sept 22. [Photo by Liu Kai / for chinadaily.com.cn] ...

Trifid and Lagoon: This image combines 678 separate images taken at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Combining many images reveals otherwise faint or invisible details, such as clouds of gas and dust ...

Among the wondrous objects that lie along the plane of the Milky Way is a faint fuzzy patch of light located to the west and slightly north of the top star of the “bow” of the constellation of ...

Skywatching summer’s celestial firmament is awe-inspiring throughout the entire season, but observing beneath August’s skies is particularly gratifying. August is when it all comes together, when the ...

Emission nebulae are the subject of many of the most spectacular astrophotographs published in the last decade. Although there are many subcategories of nebulae, they all consist of interstellar gas ...

The world's largest telescope captured a deep-space nebula — an interstellar cloud of gas and dust that can produce new stars — in stunning detail, providing the first close-up view to date of the ...

This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time. Combining many images in this way clearly reveals otherwise faint or ...