Ringside an Icy Water World | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Cassini spacecraft captured this image of Saturn's moon Enceladus across the planet's rings.
Rebel Without A Configuration: A Beautiful, Messy Galaxy | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Hubble recorded this image of fairly rare cosmic system, an irregular galaxy presenting a messy and unorganized shape.
Another World — Mars' Strange Surface | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff What appear to be tiny oases in a vast pink desert are thought to be Martian sand darkened by melting carbon dioxide ice.
Galactic Get Down: Galaxies Grooving | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Hubble sent us yet another fabulous image, this time of a pair of galaxies gracefully dancing roughly 550 million light-years from Earth.
Connections in the Cosmic Web: Pandora Cluster | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Galaxies, hot gas and dark matter combine, drawn by gravity, to create the Pandora Cluster.
First Look at Titan | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Not what it seems, this image represents the last moments of descent as ESA's Huygens probe landed on Saturn's moon Titan.
Bosom Buddies: A Galactic Pair | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Near the The Triangle, a constellation in the northern sky, this pair of spiral galaxies draw closer and closer to each other.
Twin Jet Nebula: The Cosmic Butterfly | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Over 4200 light-years away, this cosmic butterfly takes an odd two-lobed shape.
Veil Nebula: Supernova Remnant | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff The Veil Nebula, in the constellation Cygnus, is one of the most massive and brilliant features in the x-ray sky.
Stephan's Quintent: Galaxies Shimmering and Shining | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff This galactic group, originally discovered in 1877, uses data from multiple observation technologies.
Northern Lights and Rocket Launches | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Launching experiments in rockets from the Arctic Circle gives ample opportunity to view the Northern Lights.
Beauty Out of Death | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff The planetary nebula ESO 456-67 shows the beauty that can be created by death, the death of a sun-like star.
Sputnik Planum's Mountainous Shores | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Mountain sides of great water-ice blocks, varying from dark to light and some possibly revealing layers of Pluto crust, squeezed together to create the "al-Idrisi mountains."
Swirling Vortex on Venus Caught in Action | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff As the Venus Express spacecraft zoomed past the south pole of the a stunning photo of this swirling vortex
A Fond Farewell — A Star Says Goodbye | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Menzel 2, a planetary nebula, arrives at its final stages of life as a white dwarf.
Immense Cloud Bubbles with Hydrogen and Infant Stars | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff A cosmic cloud known as Mon R2 holds bubbles of ionized hydrogen and baby stars at its center.
Thor's Helmet Nebula Glows Brightly | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff In deep space NGC 2359, a glowing cloud of gas and dust takes the shape of Thor's mythical helmet and the colors declare the composition of the beautiful patches.
Secrets of a Supermassive Black Hole Revealed | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff Combining the power of several telescopes, scientists discovered a magnificent image of the black hole in Hercules A.
Gravitational Waves, If We Could See Them | Space Wallpaper By Space.com Staff This computer simulation shows what two merging black holes would look like — gravitational waves rippling away from the impact.