The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

Earth has rarely looked as remarkable as it does in this stunning shot (above) captured by NASA astronaut Don Pettit from the International Space Station (ISS).

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

What does lightning look like from space? Astronauts on space station share stunning photos The latest images of sky-splitting lightning came courtesy of two NASA astronauts residing aboard the ...

What does lightning look like from space? See stunning photos from astronauts on ISS The latest images of lightning seen from space came from two NASA astronauts who reached the International ...

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain were the latest to share images of lightning as seen from 250 miles above Earth.

Solar scientists have unveiled spectacular new images of plasma "rain" in the sun's corona using adaptive optics.

Austrian composer Johann Strauss II's "The Blue Danube" has, for many people, been synonymous with space travel since it was used in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci‑fi classic "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected water ice in a debris disk around HD 181327—a young star located within ...

Could cosmic radiation from space be quietly altering the DNA of Earth’s wildlife? Some scientists believe these high-energy rays may be behind strange mutations seen in animals across the globe ...

From the very first color image of Earth, to the stunning Earthrise captured from the lunar surface, check out these 7 iconic NASA Earth images clicked from outer space.

Full of extraordinary footage, Robert Stone's blissed-out mind-bender of a movie meditates on the possibilities of life in the universe.