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Space

the silhouette of a person gazing at the starry night sky
The planets are stunning in December 2024 — and no telescope is needed
No one had seen a close-up of a star outside the Milky Way — until now
Scientists watch hardcore object blasting energy beams into space
Space camera films footage of giant Starship rocket launching to space
NASA's Curiosity rover heads to new puzzling Martian destination
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.
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.

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NASA drills freaky scenario where elusive asteroid heads towards Earth
By Mark Kaufman
The asteroid 243 Ida and its small moon as imaged by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in August 1993.
Scientists discover how old Jupiter's Great Red Spot really is
By Mark Kaufman
Jupiter's Great Red Spot as imaged by NASA's Juno spacecraft in 2019.
Astronomers just witnessed a whole galaxy 'turn on the lights' in real-time
By Elisha Sauers
A supermassive black hole awakening
NASA mission spots Chinese spacecraft on far side of the moon
By Mark Kaufman
China's Chang'e 6 mission, at center, landed on the moon on June 1, 2024.
NASA rover drives through ancient Mars river, snaps stunning view
By Mark Kaufman
The Perseverance rover recently drove through a primordial waterway on Mars, a place that once teemed with water.
The strange new worlds scientists have discovered this year
By Elisha Sauers
A gas giant exoplanet orbiting another star
NASA rover discovers mysterious Mars boulder unlike any others
By Elisha Sauers
Rovering finding Atoko Point on Mars
How a NASA scientist blew all of our minds
By Mark Kaufman
In November 1980, Voyager 1 snapped this image of Saturn and two of the gas giant's moons.
Scientists spot massive asteroid collision — in another solar system
By Mark Kaufman
Eros, a large and elongated asteroid in our solar system.
NASA rover gets blasted by solar storm on Mars, captures footage
By Mark Kaufman
The top of the Curiosity rover's mast, which holds several different cameras.
Watch SpaceX's Starship booster ace its splashdown for the first time
By Elisha Sauers
SpaceX's Starship lifting off on fourth test flight
NASA reveals why it's so hard to spot alien life — even with Webb
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of the Earth-sized exoplanet Kepler-186f, which orbits in the habitable zone of a distant solar system some 500 light-years away.
SpaceX's Starship shows resilience through brutally hot reentry
By Elisha Sauers
SpaceX Starship
NASA astronauts blast off in tense launch on Boeing spacecraft
By Elisha Sauers
Starliner jettisoning solid rocket booster
China just landed on the moon. And it released footage.
By Mark Kaufman
A conception of China's Chang’e-6 craft landing on the moon.
Japanese billionaire cancels private SpaceX moon mission, crew devastated
By Amanda Yeo
Yusaku Maezawa.
Launch of Boeing's Starliner spaceship gets scuttled. Yes, again.
By Elisha Sauers
Starliner launching on a ULA Atlas V Centaur rocket
The long, thorny history of Boeing's Starliner spaceship
By Elisha Sauers
Starliner approaching the International Space Station
How scientists revealed a new Martian rock type without the rock
By Elisha Sauers
a Martian meteorite
Footage shows return of colossal sunspot that created Northern Lights
By Mark Kaufman
A huge and active solar spot on the sun's surface, seen through a solar telescope in late May 2024.
New Webb image isn't just stunning. It shattered a record.
By Mark Kaufman
This deep field view from the James Webb Space Telescope shows (in the box) the oldest-known galaxy ever discovered.
What does a meteorite taste like? Someone found out and bottled it.
By Elisha Sauers
Meteors showering over Nebraska
NASA reveals footage of astronauts training in desert for moon mission
By Mark Kaufman
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on a simulated moonwalk in May 2024.
Scientists just found a really strange super-Earth
By Mark Kaufman
An artist's conception of a super-Earth, which is a rocky world more massive than our planet.
Spacecraft snaps eerie view of our galaxy's 'doppelganger'
By Mark Kaufman
A new, highly detailed view of the spiral galaxy NGC 6744.
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