An awestruck Elon Musk reacted to NASA’s latest image drop on social media, captioned “ Sky full of stars .” The agency noted, “ Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.”

A detailed radio image of the Milky Way’s center has revealed hundreds of massive filament-like structures, some stretching up to 150 light-years long. These highly ordered formations appear in one of the most chaotic regions of the galaxy — yet their origin remains unclear.

Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from the image could help astronomers understand the origin ...

Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, Adrian Price-Whelan

By analyzing the data from the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PandAS), European astronomers have discovered a new satellite of the Andromeda galaxy. The newfound object, which received the designation Andromeda XXXVI,

Having just looped around the moon in a historic flyby of our nearest neighbor, the Artemis II crew are now on their way back to Earth. NASA’s Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch, along with the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen,

NASA mission managers hold a briefing as the crew prepares for tomorrow night's scheduled splashdown. The Artemis II team is finishing a historic 10-day lunar journey, marking the first time humans have seen the Moon up close since 1972.

The Artemis II crew is headed back to Earth after a historic journey around the moon. The most important elements of the groundbreaking mission worked perfectly, but there have still been a few snafus along the way that the crew has had to deal with.