space photography

    Mars Express Captures a Martian Landscape Shaped by Ancient Lava and Wind
    Oct 23, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    A new image from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft shows a vast, flat-topped mountain surrounded by impact craters, valleys, and long ridges. The…

    NASA’s Chandra Observatory Reveals a Giant Cosmic “Treble Clef”
    Oct 22, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have traced a giant radio structure resembling a musical treble clef back to two events separated by millions of years. An outburst from a…

    Six Images of Centaurus A: From Dusty Star Fields to Giant Black Hole Jets
    Oct 17, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Centaurus A is a galaxy with several faces. In visible light, a broad band of dark dust crosses its bright centre. Radio observations reveal enormous…

    NASA’s SpaceX CRS-35 Launch Creates a Giant Jellyfish in the Sky
    Oct 15, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    On October 13, a Falcon 9 rocket rose from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a Dragon spacecraft packed with cargo for the International Space Station (ISS)….

    Hubble and Gemini North Telescope Shows Three Views of Jupiter
    Oct 14, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Jupiter’s Great Red Spot appears very different when astronomers observe it in visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light. The reddish storm that stands out in an…

    Hera Spots Didymos for the First Time, But It Is Smaller Than a Pixel
    Oct 13, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    ESA’s Hera spacecraft has photographed its destination for the first time, picking out the Didymos asteroid system against a background of stars. The image, captured…

    JWST Captures the Galaxy Behind the Most Distant Fast Radio Burst Yet
    Oct 12, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    On 4 March 2024, the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa detected a brief flash of radio waves from deep space. The signal lasted milliseconds,…

    ESA’s Sentinel-3C Satellite Reveals Its First Images of Earth
    Oct 11, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    ESA’s Sentinel-3C satellite has returned its first images of Italy, the Canadian Arctic and the Caribbean. Captured in late September, the images reveal snow-covered mountains,…

    These Four Images Celebrate NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
    Oct 10, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA has released four composite images celebrating the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory as the spacecraft approaches the end of its mission in orbit. The collection…

    Mars Express Captures a Mysterious 1,800 km-Long Cloud on Mars
    Oct 10, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    A long, narrow cloud forms near Arsia Mons on Mars during the morning and can stretch for nearly 1,800 kilometers. It appears during spring and…