Taking an image of the Milky Way from space is no easy task. The ISS orbits Earth at approximately 17,500 miles per hour ...

This photo taken by astronaut Don Pettit shows the plane of our galaxy (Milky Way ... the Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) with low illumination and long ...

"A supercomputer simulation shows many galaxies merging over time. The parts of galaxies we can see are glowing stars forming from gas in their central parts. Visualizations like these inform ...

The final messages sent to Gaia will continue to be carried out into space as the observatory sleeps, and as data from it ...

Timelapse during a nighttime @Space_Station change in attitude where we rotated 180 degrees and flew backwards for yesterday’s Soyuz docking. This is a bit long but keep watching for the surprise in ...

After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.