NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe…
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Topography Between Mars Helicopter and Rover for Flight 17: In this annotated image, Ingenuity’s flight path is depicted in yellow. Perseverance’s location is indicated in…
This image shows the most massive planet-hosting star pair to date, b Centauri, and its giant planet b Centauri b. This is the first time…
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar Sidekick: Astronomers Find White Dwarf Blasting a Companion Object
Observations from Chandra reveal unusual X-ray activity from the white dwarf star called KPD 0005+5106. This artist’s illustration depicts what a team of astronomers think…
Hubble orbiting the earth as the sun rises. Credit: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches on the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program 3 (STP-3) mission from Space Launch Complex 41 at…
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, on December 24, 2013, spacewalk. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)…
This diagram shows the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous objects as calculated by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Highlighted is the orbit…
‘Eggshell planets’ are rocky worlds that have an ultra-thin outer brittle layer and little to no topography. Here, an artist’s rendition of such an exoplanet.…
Magnetic fields are produced by a dynamo mechanism inside stars and emerge through the surface to the outer atmosphere, where they generate stellar magnetic storms,…
Dark matter concept art. An international team of astronomers led by researchers from the Netherlands has found no trace of dark matter in the galaxy…
Mastcam-Z’s First Martian Sunset: The first Mastcam-Z image of the Martian sunset acquired from Jezero crater on sol 257 of the mission. Martian sunsets typically…
Moon phases. The dusty surface of the moon — immortalized in images of Apollo astronauts’ lunar footprints — formed as the result of asteroid impacts…
Total Solar Eclipse Below the Bottom of the World. Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek (ESO Photo Ambassador, Inst. of Physics in Opava) On Saturday, December…
An image of comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) taken November 13, 2021, from June Lake in California. Credit & Copyright: Dan E. Bartlett Now is the…
Mars Helicopter Sol 133 – Color Camera: NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image during its 9th flight. Flight 17 will fly by this terrain…
Launch of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on May 18, 2021. Credit: United Launch Alliance The December 6 launch of…
Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy NCG 7329, captured with Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. This…
Artist’s representation of IXPE in Earth orbit. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
Illustration of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Space Test Program Satellite-6 (STPSat-6) with the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload communicating data over infrared links.…