A surreal snapshot of our planet’s thin atmospheric boundary, set against the breathtaking glow of the Milky Way ... by ISS ...

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are.

A NASA space telescope on a mission to map millions of galaxies has turned on its detectors for the first time, capturing images of tens ... million stars in the Milky Way, NASA said.

In a serendipitous cosmic discovery, astronomers have found a colossal galaxy that looks just like our own Milky Way ... using NASA's powerful James Well Space Telescope. Stunning images ...

The new image of a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud combines data from different wavelengths to provide this highly-detailed photo. | Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Nota ...

One of these, SIMP 0136, wanders aimlessly in the Milky Way ... which as a gas giant planet likely has a similar structure and chemical composition. Or for another way to picture this, try ...

Milky Way of dreams This ... that seem too beautiful to be real. Yet captured by NASA, the images provide a way to dive into ...

NASA says. The space agency said the confirmed planets are just a small fraction of the billions of planets the Milky Way likely holds. That number only increases when considering galaxies outside ...