Today, scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope released a picture that will go down in scientific history: the first-ever image of a black hole. But there’s more to science than pretty pictures.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the Milky Way appearing beyond Earth's horizon. At the time, the International ...

In early 2007 New Horizons flew through the Jupiter system, getting a speed-boost from the giant planet’s gravity while snapping stunning, close-up images of Jupiter and its largest moons. Fast ...

The New Horizons Multicolor Visible Imaging Camera (MVIC) took this image of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io at 04:30 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, about one hour before New Horizons’ closest ...

This dramatic image of Io was taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on New Horizons at 11:04 Universal Time on February 28, 2007, just about 5 hours after the spacecraft’s closest ...

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In what is being hailed as one of the biggest astronomy achievements of the past few years, scientists have managed to capture the first picture depicting the supermassive black hole at the center of ...

A years-old image altered to depict a solar eclipse above an ocean horizon resurfaced online in April, miscaptioned as a photograph of the April 8 North American solar eclipse. The image shows a ...