These images feature zodiacal light — the faint, diffuse glow created by sunlight scattering off dust particles in orbit.

PUNCH’s vibrant first images reveal the solar wind in a whole new light — literally. This ambitious NASA mission is set to ...

A new NASA mission to map the solar wind has returned some of its first images from its position in low Earth orbit. The ...

NASA has shared the first closeup images of the Donaldjohanson asteroid, captured by its Lucy spacecraft on a recent flyby ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

On March 27 — 15 days after its launch — SPHEREx saw its first light, proving its instruments performed as designed. This ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a haze of sunlight. The mission is still undergoing commissioning and is ...

NASA's newest space telescope, on a mission to study origins of universe, snapped incredible images of the cosmos 2 months after it got off the ground ...

The first bits of data have come back from the trio of small satellites that make up NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission, which aims to solve some mysteries surrounding the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. On April 18, 2025, the WFI-2 instrument on NASA's four new PUNCH spacecraft took images ...