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Martian landscape taken by rover

How to tell time on Mars

Hubble telescope photo of large NGC 2775 galaxy

Galaxy NGC 2775 continues to baffle astronomers

Artist illustration of Voyager probe in space

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth

Comet passing above auroras on Earth

ISS astronauts photograph two comets soaring over Earth’s auroras

The center of the image has the brightest pixel, indicating where the comet is. The next brightest shades in the image indicate areas where the instrument detected atoms of hydrogen coming from the comet. This hydrogen is released when sunlight heats the comet, causing its water ice to turn directly into vapor. Once released into space, the water molecules break apart into oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

New NASA images confirm comet 3I/ATLAS is not aliens

By Andrew Paul, Laura Baisas

Artist illustration of two ESCAPADE satellites orbiting Mars

Meet Blue and Gold: NASA’s first twin satellites bound for Mars

A large planetary nebula. The nebula’s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, illuminating the nearby dust. Two large loops extend diagonally away from the centre, formed of thin ridges of molecular gas, here coloured blue. They stretch out to the corners of the view. A huge number of bright, whitish stars cover the background, also easily visible through the thin dust layers.

Red Spider Nebula glows in ethereal new JWST image

By Laura Baisas

The first six women in newly issued, incompletely adorned astronaut jumpsuits, 1978: (front, left to right) Sally Ride, Rhea Seddon; (rear) Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, Anna Fisher, Judy Resnik.

NASA’s trailblazing generation

By Valerie Neal

Cars driving down snowy road at night

There are actually 9 types of precipitation

A stream of plasma moves from the sun toward Earth. On its way, the plasma hits four, square spacecraft, which are arranged in a triangular-pyramid formation. The spacecraft closest to the sun is in the center of a large, aluminum sail.

Earth has a space tornado problem

a gold dollar coin. the heads side has a woman holding a baby on her back named sacagewea on it and the back an eagle with 17 stars

Space-flown Sacagawea dollar coins fetch over $500K at auction

By Laura Baisas

a mock up of a boarding pass for a flight during artemis 2

NASA’s next trip around the moon could have your name on it

By Laura Baisas

Lunar rover concept going up hill with US flag mounted on rear

NASA offers $155,000 to design moon tires

An artist illustration of a small planet-sized object striking Mars during its early years.

Inside Mars, a ‘rocky road’ mantle reveals a violent past

A scanning electron microscope image of a micrometeorite impact crater in a particle of asteroid Bennu material.

Some asteroids are more ‘colorful’ than others. Here’s why.

This image of Uranus from NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope exquisitely captures Uranus's seasonal north polar cap and dim inner and outer rings. This Webb image also shows 9 of the planet's 27 moons – clockwise starting at 2 o'clock, they are: Rosalind, Puck, Belinda, Desdemona, Cressida, Bianca, Portia, Juliet, and Perdita.

Uranus may have a 29th moon

An artist’s impression of the “Cosmic Grapes” galaxy, composed of at least 15 massive star forming clumps—far more than current theoretical models predict could exist within a single rotating disk at this early time. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/B. Saxton

Early galaxy looked like lumpy ‘cosmic grapes’

Image of comet taken by Hubble Space Telescope

Fastest comet ever recorded comes from beyond our solar system

Artist illustration of supermassive black hole surrounded by cloud of red and yellow gas

Oldest black hole ever seen is 300 million times bigger than our sun

Photo of galaxy with zoom in box showing Betelgeuse and companion star

Betelgeuse’s companion star finally located after years of debate