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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.

Space

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.
Space camera films footage of giant Starship rocket launching to space
NASA's Curiosity rover heads to new puzzling Martian destination
How long is a light-year? Here are some ways to think about it.
SpaceX's sixth Starship test flight successful despite abandoning booster catch
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.
A close-up telescope image of star WOH G64 No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now
The sprawling "Guitar Nebula" in deep space. Scientists watch hardcore object blasting energy beams into space

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Screenshot from The Roman Space Observer Game
NASA has released an retro arcade game about the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope
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News

A telescope tracking image of mini moon 2024 PT5 Earth's mini moon could be a chunk of the big moon, scientists say
A chunk of the Lafayette meteorite on a clear stand Rock once forgotten in a drawer plays key part in dating water on Mars
Webb gathering images of three ultra-massive early galaxies Webb telescope scientists forced to reckon with enormous galaxy outliers
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

More Space

The space station has a risky leak. How bad is it?
By Mark Kaufman
The International Space Station as viewed from the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour.
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.
Webb and Hubble telescopes provide a preview to galactic cannibalism
By Elisha Sauers
Galaxies IC 2163 and NGC 2207 on the verge of merging.
The creepiest skulls ever seen in space
By Mark Kaufman
Asteroid 2015 TB145, which looks similar to a skull, once passed within 302,000 miles of Earth.
A NASA telescope reveals a giant black hole jet like never before
By Elisha Sauers
A jet shooting out of a Centaurus A's black hole accretion disk
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.
Scientists propose a bold new reason for Betelgeuse's volatile behavior
By Elisha Sauers
Observing Betelgeuse in the constellation Orion
One of humanity's best telescopes snapped a stunning image of deep space
By Mark Kaufman
The Gemini North telescope atop Hawaii’s lofty volcano Mauna Kea.
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.
Scientists look for alien technology from the TRAPPIST planets
By Elisha Sauers
TRAPPIST-1 star system planets orbiting red dwarf star
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.
SpaceX's successful Starship flight grabbed by giant mech arms
By Chase DiBenedetto
A large metal structure holds up the Space X Starship against a blue sky.
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.
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