We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most ...

To celebrate Scientific American ’s 180th anniversary, we’re publishing a jigsaw every weekday to show off some of our most ...

Millions of stars and galaxies fill a dreamy cosmic landscape in the first-ever images released from a new astronomical ...

Sometimes, a picture can be worth much more than a thousand words. For instance, one measure associated with the pictures below—new high-definition snapshots of the cosmos in its infancy—is ...

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin ...

Before the JWST images, Hubble’s observations of Cassiopeia A were revo­­lu­tionary. In photographs taken in 2006, Hubble improved on the resolution of ground-based observations by a factor ...

Although stunning, the new images do not mark the first time humans have gotten a lunar glimpse of the eclipsed sun. In 1969 astronauts on NASA’s Apollo 12 lunar mission observed Earth block our ...

Jeffery DelViscio (seen freezing above), who is Scientific American’s chief multimedia editor, spent a month on a scientific ...