From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

Your blood is also red because of a mixture of iron and oxygen in a molecule called hemoglobin. So in a way, the ancient connection between the planet Mars and blood wasn’t completely wrong. Rust, ...

It is a glow-in-the-dark night sky too, colored a mix of green, yellow and red. Its colors result from scattered sunlight, oxygen, and sodium from shooting stars.

Hello, readers, and welcome back to the last This Week in Space of 2022. As the year draws down to a close, American aerospace -- both public and private -- has gone as quiet as a winter's night.

In some false-color images, which help show details scientists may not see in black and white, Mars also appears to be blue. A 2022 study also suggests Mars may have once been a blue, water ...

The new category of galaxies would be the third, falling outside the usual neat dichotomy of young, actively star-forming blue galaxies and their older, inactive red counterparts.

JWST data shows up in this picture as red, orange, yellow, green and blue streaks, NASA said. Coded in these shades, you can see galactic trails of gas and growing baby stars speckling the dark ...

Solar Orbiter image of the sun in visible light, taken on March 22, 2023. Sunspots are cooler than the surrounding surface. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team Image of the sun's magnetic field. Red ...

NASA’s beloved Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning image of a binary star called R Aquarii, about 700 light-years away from Earth, that regularly spews gas out into its neighborhood in ...

Images from the European Space Agency’s newest telescope show the power of instruments that will create 3D surveys of a third of the sky, covering 10 billion years of cosmic history.

The images are part of nearly 25,000 collected by Chandra over its time in space. Chandra observed the cosmic objects for up to thousands of hours, according to the photo gallery released by NASA .