NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope awed again with a new infrared image of the Crab Nebula. The supernova remnant’s smoky interior is radiation emitted by fast-moving charged particles.

Finally, one special instrument on the ISS is called the Sally Ride EarthKAM, named after iconic American astronaut Sally ...

A post at Space.com led us to a NASA video that we find fascinating. In it, astronaut Karen Nyberg, one of the six people now aboard the International Space Station, demonstrates how little effort ...

See 15 of the week’s most interesting and gripping images from around the world, selected by Washington Post photo editors. ... Wally Funk becomes the oldest person to ever go into space; ...

The photographs, shot during astronauts' sleep hours, focus on the object they have called home for 20 years—and capture the experience of being human in a place devoid of humanity.

Mr. Pettit is not even the oldest person to spend time at the International Space Station. A private astronaut, Larry Connor, was 72 years old when he spent two weeks there in 2022 as part of a ...

There are a lot of moving parts to the Universe, as nothing exists in isolation. There are literally trillions of large masses in our Solar System, all orbiting around the galactic center on ...

First, let's assume that it is possible — though it is not — for a human to move at the speed of light, which is 299,792,458 meters per second (983,571,056 feet per second), or about 186,000 ...