The optical illusion occurs because people are used to interpreting shadows as coming from an overhead light source. But that's not necessarily the orientation of spacecraft. In many satellite photos, ...

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.

Perry's AI Met Gala "appearance" comes after her Blue Origin space trip last month. "Couldn’t make it to the MET, I’m on The Lifetimes Tour (see you in Houston tomorrow IRL‼️)" she wrote ...

When NASA launched the second of its Space Shuttle missions in November of 1981, Columbia was carrying a new space robot ... board the telescope — the Fine Guidance Sensor and the Near-Infrared Imager ...

The agency had named him as deputy associate administrator for strategic partnerships, after he served a stint as Space Shuttle program manager and supervised the program's return to flight following ...

Abstract: We present two extensions to the space carving framework. The first is a progressive scheme to better reconstruct surfaces lacking sufficient textures. The second is a novel ...

Bright Side This Photo From Space Will Stay in Your Mind Forever Posted: April 30, 2025 | Last updated: April 30, 2025 In 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless made history by floating 100 meters away ...

On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. This was the second time the Spacelab went to space and the first time it flew ...

"This flight — and the engineering process that led us here — taught us valuable lessons on the design of the next iteration, Phoenix 2." A European reentry capsule notched some important ...

The burned area is revealed when viewed in shortwave infrared, near infrared and visible ... NASA is generally associated with looking outward into space, but by pointing its satellites back ...

The photo has been newly processed using modern techniques to show the "cosmic pillar" in even more detail, with layers of cold gas and dust seen by Hubble's visible and infrared cameras.