An artist’s concept of the Geotail spacecraft. The GEOTAIL mission is a collaboration between the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), Japan Aerospace Exploration…
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NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of a solar flare in 2014. The solar flare is the bright flash of light on the right…
NGC 346, shown here in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is a dynamic star cluster that lies within a…
These two images are of the dusty debris disk around AU Mic, a red dwarf star located 32 light-years away in the southern constellation Microscopium.…
This illustration reflects that exoplanet LHS 475 b is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth based on new evidence from NASA’s James…
Merging neutron stars, illustrated here, produce a blast of gamma rays when they come together and collapse into a black hole. Observations of two bursts…
Newly discovered Earth-size planet TOI 700 e orbits within the habitable zone of its star in this illustration. Its Earth-size sibling, TOI 700 d, can…
Tiny galaxy HIPASS J1131–31 peeks out from behind the glare of star TYC 7215-199-1, a Milky Way star positioned between Hubble and the galaxy. One…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 6956. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Jones (University of California – Santa Cruz); Processing: Gladys Kober…
This artist’s illustration shows the location and size of a hypothetical cloud of dust surrounding our solar system. Credit: NASA, ESA, Andi James (STScI) Exhaust…
Simulated black hole jets spin and sweep past in this animation. The jets, which contain particles moving near the speed of light, appear in orange,…
Exoplanet WASP-39 b Illustration. Credit: Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian Observations of Exoplanet WASP-39b show fingerprints of atoms and molecules, as well…
An artist’s concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench.…
The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), is embedded within a cloud…
Through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.…
Following its launch no later than May 2027, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will survey the same areas of the sky every few days. Researchers will…
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the Flame Nebula, also known as NGC 2024. It is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that…
Drina Shah standing in front of the Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA Reach for the stars because you might just become one! Drina Shah…
Near-Infrared Light Uncovers Vast Populations of Forming Stars, Many Still Encased in Dust NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an…
An artist’s concept of the Geotail spacecraft. The Geotail spacecraft was designed and built by ISAS and was launched on July 24, 1992. After fulfilling…