This animation shows the path light will follow as it hits the primary James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mirror, and is reflected to the secondary,…
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the most powerful infrared science observatory ever to be sent into space.…
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on June 23, 2022, as the spacecraft flew past the planet for its second of…
The MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert world…
Seen here is a close-up view of the Orion spacecraft atop the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it rolls to Launch Complex 39B at…
Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket sits on the pad at the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand for wet dress rehearsal ahead of the CAPSTONE…
Hubble Space Telescope image of the sparkling globular cluster NGC 6569 in the constellation Sagittarius. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen The sparkling globular cluster…
Looking to power surface exploration on the Moon … New imagery from the surface of Mars …. And our newest flight directors … a few…
NASA’s The Color of Space documentary captures the personal stories of seven current and former Black astronauts, each selected to become part of NASA’s astronaut…
Overall view of the space station flight control room in the Johnson Space Center’s Mission Control Center as flight controllers support rendezvous and docking operations…
Artist’s impression of Mars Express. The background is based on an actual image of Mars taken by the spacecraft’s high resolution stereo camera. Credit: Spacecraft…
South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Credit: South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) An international team of astronomers has combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes…
This artist’s illustration imagines a violent collision early in Psyche’s history. Credit: ASU/Peter Rubin NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is…
The Cygnus space freighter from Northrop Grumman, with its prominent cymbal-shaped solar arrays, is pictured attached to the International Space Station’s Unity module as the…
Billions of years ago, a river flowed across this scene in a Mars valley called Mawrth Vallis. A new study examines the tracks of Martian…
Artist’s animation of a rocket booster crashing into the moon. Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred…
NGC 2392 is a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula. About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star…
Artist’s impression of one potential source of continuous gravitational waves – Asymmetric accretion onto a spinning neutron star. Credit: Mark Myers, Ozgrav-Swinburne University In the…
Simulation of glowing gas around a black hole’ Credit: Chris White, Princeton University Looks can be deceiving. The light from an incandescent bulb seems steady,…