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Viewing some of the Spiderweb protocluster through the James Webb Space Telescope
Webb telescope exposes secrets of a famous cosmic metropolis
the silhouette of a person gazing at the starry night sky
The planets are stunning in December 2024 — and no telescope is needed
A NASA illustration depicting a volcanic region called the Quetzalpetlatl Corona in Venus’ southern hemisphere.
Venus' past is mysterious. But scientists just revealed a big clue.

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An artist’s rendering of the X-66 aircraft soaring above the clouds.
NASA's testing a futuristic plane. You might fly on it.
NASA's Curiosity rover heads to new puzzling Martian destination
The space station has a risky leak. How bad is it?
Earth's mini moon could be a chunk of the big moon, scientists say
Webb telescope scientists forced to reckon with enormous galaxy outliers
The U.S. Army Polar Research and Development Center building tunnels at Camp Century in Greenland in 1959. NASA plane swooped over the Arctic. It detected a buried military base.
The BepiColombo mission snapped this image of Mercury during a flyby in June 2023. Is Mercury in retrograde? Yes, but there's a catch.
Webb telescope capture of the Sombrero Galaxy Webb telescope clears the haze around a stunning galactic icon
An artist's conception of a super-Earth in another solar system. NASA spotted a very young planet. It could become a super-Earth.
The sprawling "Guitar Nebula" in deep space. Scientists watch hardcore object blasting energy beams into space

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An artist's interpretation of an exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. Webb telescope sees world that could reek of burnt matches and rotten eggs
SpaceX getting ready to launch Starship Get ready: SpaceX Starship will try to fly again soon
Viewing the Arecibo Observatory's giant radio telescope before its collapse Giant telescope's own powerful radiation may have contributed to collapse
A conception of a neutron star. Scientists just found a mind-boggling object in deep space
Earth and the moon as viewed by the European Space Agency's Hera mission. Spacecraft watches lonely Earth and moon fade into the distance
An artist's rendering of Voyager 1 against a starry background NASA's Voyager finally phoned home with a device unused since 1981
A diagonally split image of the star Vega showing Hubble's view in the top left and Webb's view in the bottom right Webb telescope finds hot young star Vega is actually quite lonely
Galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 on the verge of merging. Webb and Hubble telescopes provide a preview to galactic cannibalism
Asteroid 2015 TB145, which looks similar to a skull, once passed within 302,000 miles of Earth. The creepiest skulls ever seen in space
A jet shooting out of a Centaurus A's black hole accretion disk A NASA telescope reveals a giant black hole jet like never before

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Voyager found a mystery on Uranus. Decades later, NASA solved it.
By Mark Kaufman
Voyager 2's final image of Uranus, captured on Jan. 25, 1986.
An object struck a satellite in Earth's orbit, leaving a hole
By Mark Kaufman
NanoAvionics recently spotted a small hole on its MP42 Satellite, which was caused by an impact.
This black hole just did something theoretically impossible
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568.
NASA rover climbs daunting slope, views its remarkable Mars adventure
By Mark Kaufman
The Perseverance rover peering onto the Martian landscape.
NASA reveals new moon landing sites. They're dark and uncharted.
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of Blue Origin's moon lander on the lunar surface.
A colossal asteroid once boiled the oceans. It also did the unexpected.
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of a large space rock colliding with Earth.
The most fascinating star in our sky inches closer to exploding
By Mark Kaufman
The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Webb telescope spots extremely bright objects. They shouldn't be there.
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's depiction shows how a quasar, which is the extremely bright core of a galaxy, unleashes torrents of energy from its central black hole.
NASA captures star duo spraying plasma a quarter-trillion miles
By Elisha Sauers
R Aquarii blasting stellar material into space
NASA just found places where microbial Martians might be able to thrive
By Elisha Sauers
Cryoconites on a glacier on Earth
Huge NASA spacecraft is flying to a perilous part of the solar system
By Mark Kaufman
A conception of the Europa Clipper spacecraft flying by the Jovian moon, Europa, with dominant Jupiter in the distance.
The sun will be really 'stormy' for the next year, NASA says
By Mark Kaufman
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory snapped this view of a powerful solar flare in October 2024.
NASA's new moon suits are revealed. They must resist -334 F temperatures.
By Mark Kaufman
A conception of astronauts working on the moon's surface.
Webb telescope just snapped view of a distant world before it disappears
By Mark Kaufman
A NASA conception of a gas exoplanet orbiting a star in another solar system.
En route to an asteroid, spacecraft snaps ghostly views of Earth
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of the European Space Agency's Hera craft traveling through the solar system.
SpaceX just launched a huge NASA craft. It's headed to an ocean world.
By Mark Kaufman
A conception of NASA's Europa Clipper approaching the ice-covered world, Europa.
NASA thinks it found a moon light-years away spewing gas
By Elisha Sauers
Jupiter's moon Io
NASA video shows spacecraft's wild ride around ocean world
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft flying above the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
NASA spacecraft flies over gullies on Mars. They could host pools.
By Mark Kaufman
A conception of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter flying above Mars.
Webb telescope finds first clear evidence of a 'steam world'
By Elisha Sauers
Imagining a steam world
NASA just found unexpected loads of water ice on the moon
By Mark Kaufman
A NASA conception of future astronauts working on the lunar surface.
Past life on Mars? Here's what new NASA evidence points to.
By Elisha Sauers
Curiosity viewing the Martian landscape
Imagine 3 stars orbiting each other every 4 weeks. It's real.
By Elisha Sauers
stars orbiting each other
NASA releases photo of ocean world. It shows why NASA's going there.
By Mark Kaufman
A view of the icy, cracked surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
NASA shut off a Voyager instrument. Only these 4 remain.
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of a Voyager craft journeying through deep space.
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