In the famous Pleiades star cluster, a star’s light slowly destroys a passing cloud of gas and dust. The star,…
Soft hues, partially lit orbs, a thin trace of the ring and slight shadows highlight this understated view of the…
The Cassini spacecraft surveys Saturn’s outstretched ring system in the infrared from a vantage point high above the planet’s northern…
A massive cluster of yellowish galaxies is seemingly caught in a spider web of distorted background galaxies in the left-hand…
The first recorded eruption of Mount Belinda Volcano, on Montagu Island in the remote South Sandwich Islands, began in October…
This 1963 photograph shows vent flowing cryogenic fuel and T/C Rake mounted on a 1/10 scale model Centaur rocket in…
How do we know that dark matter isn’t just normal matter exhibiting strange gravity? A new observation of gravitationally magnified…
The Aura spacecraft, atop the Boeing Delta II rocket, successfully launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California on…
On May 14, 1607, a group of London-based entrepreneurs and accompanying laborers, collectively known as the Virginia Company, made landfall…
