In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...

NASA's fleet of Earth-observing satellites captured 12 remarkable views throughout 2025, documenting major natural phenomena, ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capturing the night sky “like never before.” The snapshots ...

Editor’s Note (6/23/25): This story has been updated with additional imagery and details. Welcome to a mind-blowing new era of astronomy. The long-awaited Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a cutting-edge new ...

A powerful new observatory has unveiled its first images to the public, showing off what it can do as it gets ready to start its main mission: making a vivid time-lapse video of the night sky that ...

A NASA satellite image shows a volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that has awoken after more than 400 years of slumber. Krasheninnikova first began spilling lava and spitting up ash on the ...

2025 marks the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, and NASA's Earth Observatory commemorated the milestone with a satellite-based image tracing the canal's historic route across New York State. According ...

A striking satellite image shared by NASA's Earth Observatory captured the first Atlantic hurricane of the 2025 season, "Erin," roiling over the ocean as it caused weather alerts in nearby coastal ...

Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.

NASA announced the selection of industry proposals to advance technologies for the agency’s Habitable Worlds Observatory concept.