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In the composite image, Messier 83, or M83, is shown to have a spiral structure, viewed straight on. At the center is a brilliant white and yellow pool of light. From that light, spiral arms of hot pink cloud corkscrew out in wide, sweeping arches. The galaxy is covered in a faint grey haze, and flecked with red, green, blue, white, and yellow dots.

‘Fireworks’ spotted in stellar explosion 15 million light-years away

By Laura Baisas

an illustration of a barrel-shaped space telescope flying near purple constellations in space

Put your name aboard NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

By Laura Baisas

a male astronaut wearing a white space suit with an italian flag on the arm holds his helmet

Astronaut who nearly drowned in space selected for Artemis III crew

By Laura Baisas

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster of galaxies (white sources). Via the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, the same background galaxy is multiply imaged four times and the white square shows the most magnified image which was studied by Newman and colleagues using the NIRSpec Integral Field Spectrograph onboard JWST. The data measures the velocity for each portion of the image within the white square. The top bar shows an angular scale of 5 arcsec. Credit: NASA/JWST

JWST spots dormant black hole 10 billion light-years from Earth

a moon, poop emoji, plant emoji

NASA wastewater system will turn human poop into plant food

By Mack DeGeurin

a bull dozer going down a hill

Fire dozers outfitted with NASA-made sensors help battle blazes

By Mack DeGeurin

a graphic that reads moon joy june

How you can help NASA (even if you failed math)

By Margherita Bassi

Artist’s rendering of a MoonFall drone operating near the lunar South Pole.

Four drones will go where no astronaut have landed—yet

By Laura Baisas

a hand holding a yellow paper airplane against a blue sky

It’s National Paper Airplane Day: How to make a NASA-approved plane

By Laura Baisas

Crescent outline of Mars taken by Psyche spacecraft

Mars shines in ethereal photo from Psyche space probe

Four ISS astronauts smiling beside floating oranges, peppers, apples, and an onion

ISS astronauts pose with fresh fruit in microgravity

Perseverance Mars rover selfie photo with Martian landscape behind it

Mars rover snaps a selfie near skyscraper-sized boulders

a before and after satellite image

NASA satellite images show how a massive tsunami in Alaska changed the landscape forever

By Laura Baisas

Black and white photo of Curiosity rover's robotic arm drill lifting a stone off the ground on Mars.

For 6 days, NASA’s Mars rover battled a rock

Rise zero gravity indicator plushie

The adorable Artemis II ‘Rise’ plushies finally land in NASA’s online shop

Close up of lunar surface photographed by Artemis II crew

NASA needs your help spotting meteors hitting the moon

a man's face in a bubble

Watch the Artemis II astronauts have fun with bubbles

By Laura Baisas

Images of two solar flares observed by NASA on April 23-24, 2026.

The sun just fired off two massive solar flares

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed "Mary Anning" after a 19th century English paleontologist. This was the site of the chemical experiment uncovering diverse organic molecules on Mars, in the Glen Torridon region, which scientists believe was a site where ancient conditions would have been favorable to supporting life, if it ever was present.

Curiosity finds molecules needed for ancient life on Mars

the earth is setting behind the moon

New Artemis II astronaut iPhone video reveals new Earthset view

By Laura Baisas