The European Space Agency's Euclid mission has revealed the first images captured by the spacecraft, which seeks to investigate one of the most mysterious parts of the cosmos: dark matter.
An asteroid slammed into Earth, triggering a widespread dinosaur extinction. Scientists found that a colossal amount of dust in the atmosphere darkened the planet and devastated the food chain.
Space is teeming with objects that, from the right perspective, might resemble things we're familiar with. This visual tendency is called "pareidolia," and it results in creepy cosmic images.
Astronomers turned the James Webb Space Telescope to the galaxy NGC 6822, spotting countless stars and giant cosmic clouds. Scientists have investigated this galaxy since the 19th century.