On his fourth flight, Don Pettit is once again sharing the art of astrophotography, capturing and posting pictures of Earth, ...

NASA astronaut Don Pettit imaged the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds as the International Space Station cruised 260 miles ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

A new photograph shared by NASA offers a peek at the breathtaking views seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The ...

Gamma rays emerging from neutron stars at the hearts of supernova explosions could solve the mystery of dark matter — in just ...

Astronomers have taken a superdetailed, zoomed-in photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud's "behemoth star." The stunning image, ...

Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have observed a supersoft X-ray source ...

Millions and billions of stars which adorn our night sky often form in groups or clusters from the same nebulae. Gravity ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of globular clusters, dense star groups containing thousands to millions of stars formed from a shared nebula. NASA captured Westerlund 1, the largest ...

Don Pettit packed a home-made tracker to space, allowing him to bless our timelines with long-exposure images.

It is located at a staggering distance of over 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This artistic impression showcases its main features: an egg-shaped cocoon of dust ...

What it is: The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud, two dwarf satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Where it is: 160,000 light-years away, in the constellations Dorado and Mensa ...