NASA astronaut Don Pettit already has a long-held reputation for creating stunning space photography, and his latest effort ...

Indeed, in the cosmic images below you'll glimpse ... of our vivid blue planet beyond Saturn's glorious rings. "At a distance ...

Earth has seasons because it rotates ... its detectors from being overwhelmed. The resulting images are therefore overlaid onto an image of Saturn in visible light taken by the Hubble Space ...

These are the closest images of Saturn ever taken ... Saturn is 750 million miles away — about 9 times farther than Earth is to the Sun — these close ups are nothing short of miraculous.

An astronaut on the International Space Station snapped a photo of a Sahara Desert volcanic pit in Chad that resembles a ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who goes by cosmic_background on Instagram, captured ...

Getty Images) At 222,023 miles (357,311 km) from Earth it was the closest full moon ... but also a bright light close to its disk. Saturn, the “ringed planet,” is just past its bright ...

The rings would likely circle the Earth's equator, since the planet's rotation creates a massive bulge there. So people living in Quito, Ecuador, would see the rings as a thin slice of light in ...

NGC 6355: It is a globular cluster located in the constellation Ophiuchus and is at a distance of 28,000 light years away from Earth. Saturn: Sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in ...