A view of Earth and one of Odysseus’ fuel pressurant tanks aboard the IM-1 mission. Intuitive Machines is a commercial company that has been contracted…
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Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 from right to left, NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander…
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the powerful gravity of a galaxy embedded in a massive cluster of galaxies producing multiple images of a single…
Recent research on Ryugu asteroid samples shows cometary organic matter was transported to Earth’s vicinity, offering insights into how life’s building blocks might have been…
An artistic illustration about Theia impacting the proto-Earth. Credit: Hernan Canellas/image courtesy of ASU Recent research indicates that Earth’s mantle contains two large blobs, remnants…
This artist’s impression shows the record-breaking quasar J059-4351, the bright core of a distant galaxy that is powered by a supermassive black hole. Using ESO’s…
This artist’s illustration shows a cross-section of the supermassive black hole and surrounding material in the center of our galaxy. The black sphere in the…
This illustration depicts the aftermath of a collision between two giant exoplanets. What remains is a hot, molten planetary core and a swirling, glowing cloud…
According to findings by physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt, a gravastar could look like a matryoshka doll. Credit: Daniel Jampolski and Luciano Rezzolla, Goethe University…
Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy 54 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is undergoing ram pressure stripping,…
This poster shows a flattened (Mercator) projection of the Huygens probe’s view of Saturn’s moon Titan from 10 kilometers altitude. The images that make up…
NASA’s Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment series, Saffire, concluded its final mission with Saffire-VI, marking the end of an eight-year investigation into fire behavior in space.…
Color-coded density plot of gamma rays with energies between 5 and 150 gigaelectronvolts per photon, emitted by the Sun between October 2013 and January 2015,…
This artist’s impression shows ultra-fast winds blasting out from the center of galaxy Markarian 817. These winds, moving at many millions of kilometers per hour,…
The Cluster mission comprises four satellites flying in a tetrahedral formation and collecting the most detailed data yet on small-scale changes in near-Earth space, and…
A view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu. The dust and rocks were poured into the trays from the top…
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Jasmin Moghbeli is pictured inside the International Space Station’s Destiny laboratory module opening a science freezer that hosts…
JWST-7329: a rare massive galaxy that formed very early in the Universe. This James Webb Space Telescope NIRCAM image shows a red disk galaxy but…
A now iconic collage showing 22 individual well-known PNe, artistically arranged in a spiral pattern by order of approximate physical size. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA,…
Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The science performed by the complex suite of instruments recently added to the Europa Clipper spacecraft…