These small ‘robots’ can create a complex system when they find each other as they roam around. Felice Frankel, CC BY-ND Were you recently gobsmacked when you saw the very first image of a black hole?

Are you able to tell the difference between a scientific image made by a person or by an AI model? Olga Yastremska/iStock via Getty Images A photograph of Earth glowing in deep space, the Moon’s ...

This striking image from the science camera on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) shows interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS spewing dust and gas. The tiny nucleus of the comet (not visible) is ...

It's the 20th anniversary of the Wellcome Images Awards(opens in a new tab), which celebrates images of science and medicine. Their winners’ gallery features the most diverse range of images in the ...

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Archives, libraries, photo agencies and publishers need to do better to reflect science’s true past and present. Recently, we also needed an image of the physicist Elmer Imes, who, in 1918, became ...

The first full-color science images from the Euclid space telescope showcase crystal-clear views of hundreds of thousands of galaxies, star clusters and other stunning cosmic objects. The images are ...