Still Going!
An orbiting satellite captured this view of the venerable Hubble Space Telescope on April 23, from a distance of 38.4…
Volcanoes Galore
Dozens of giant volcanoes form hotspots on the surface of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, in this infrared…
Jumbo Pancakes
Wide, flat domes that resemble pancakes highlight this image of Venus. The domes in the picture are almost 40 miles…
Busy Cluster
Hundreds of galaxies fill Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the Coma Cluster, a family of thousands of galaxies centered in…
Home Again, Home Again…
The Orion spacecraft splashes down in the Pacific Ocean on April 10, ending the Artemis II mission. During its nine…
Rare Eclipse
The Sun’s hot but faint outer atmosphere, the corona, glows around the Moon during a total solar eclipse viewed by…
Nice View
An almost-full Moon looms through the window of the Artemis II spacecraft. The craft and its four astronauts will make…
On Its Way
Artemis II, the first mission to carry astronauts to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972, launches from Kennedy Space…
On the Clock
Artemis II, which will carry astronauts to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in 50 years, sits…
Two Stars, One Planet
This illustrates a system in which a planet (foreground) orbits both stars in a binary. Such circumbinary planets are rare,…