Can You Hear Me?An Atlas V rocket launches a new tactical satellite into space from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Monday. The satellite should improve communications for U.S. military in the field.
Photo by Michael Deep, Spaceflight Insider

Week's Best Space Pictures: 3 Hurricanes, Saturn's Equinox

A trio of cyclones charges across the Pacific, and plankton blooms in the chilly waters of the Barents Sea.

Photo gallery byNicole Werbeck
ByJane J. Lee
Published September 4, 2015

Feed your need for "heavenly" views of the universe every Friday with our picks of the most awe-inspiring space pictures. This week, a stellar nursery gets a close-up, a tactical satellite takes flight, and scientists color-code a Martian plain.