A lunar eclipse over Oceanside, California.

This eye-catching image of the planetary nebula Abell 33 was taken by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Created when an ageing star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue bubble is, by chance, aligned with a foreground star. This cosmic gem is unusually symmetric, appearing to be almost perfectly circular on the sky.

This eye-catching image of the planetary nebula Abell 33 was taken by astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Created when an ageing star blew off its outer layers, this beautiful blue bubble is, by chance, aligned with a foreground star. This cosmic gem is unusually symmetric, appearing to be almost perfectly circular on the sky.

NASA's Juno mission took incredible new photos during its tenth trip around Jupiter. The planet's clouds look like swirling hallucinations in the images.

A handout photo released by the European Space Agency on Feb. 2, 2017, shows a perspective view of the Mars north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark troughs forming a spiral-like pattern.

Taking photos of celestial bodies is no small feat. Well, taking good photos of celestial bodies, anyway... But NASA sure has perfected that art. Then again, they have the best tools in the business, including the aging, but still pretty darn good Hubble Space Telescope.

by Dimitri Goderdzishvili

Taken by NASA's Juno probe.

This week, Mars rules the space photos.

He has seen things you wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser gate. Roy Batty's dying monologue is a key scene of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, its pathos buttressed by a sense of wonder in the face of things no ordinary human being will ever see.

The NASA probe that's spent the past 13 years making countless discoveries about the ringed planet and its moons was taken out of orbit and sent plunging into Saturn's atmosphere.

Advancements in space science have real geopolitical impact back on Earth. And NASA's Cassini spacecraft will continue transmitting valuable information until the very last moments of its 20-year mission.

Though Cassini only has a few days left to study Saturn before it dies, it’s seriously making them count. Today, NASA released what it says are “the highest-resolution color images of any part of Saturn’s rings.” In true Cassini fashion, they’re absolutely mesmerizing.

The Royal Observatory Greenwich, in association with Insight Investment and BBC Sky at Night Magazine, organized the ninth annual contest for the Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year. They have recently published the shortlisted images for 2017, which will show you spectacular images of space taken from all corners of the world.

Ever Wondered What It Would Be Like To Take Photos In Space? Cinemagraph expert and space buff Armand Dijcks explains the challenges of capturing timelapses from the International Space Station and why NASA’s footage lends itself perfectly to cinemagraphs.

Early science results from NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet’s surface than previously thought.

Just days after celebrating its first anniversary in Jupiter orbit, NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the gas giant's iconic, 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm. This will be humanity's first up-close and personal view of the gigantic feature -- a storm monitored since 1830 and possibly existing for more than 350 years.

From Donald Trump's face to crabs to jelly doughnuts, entertaining images from Mars amuse scientists and excite conspiracy theorists and alien fans.