Exquisite imagery from the space observatory shows its capabilities ... Engineers also found some stray light was polluting pictures when the observatory was pointed in a certain way.

(Photo by NASA/APL/SwRI via Getty Images ... light from bright stars and galaxies, faint stars, zodiacal light and diffuse light from the Milky Way. Depictions of two kinds of dust in space ...

The European Space Agency last week released four stunning high-res images that show the sun in all its fiery glory.

A waning crescent moon will creep closer and closer to Spica until the star's light is extinguished in the blink of an eye on ...