Jupiter Bound
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) keeps its eyes on Jupiter and the giant planet's four largest moons in this…
Colorful Debris
Bright blue stars sparkle in front of the Vela Supernova Remnant–an expanding cloud of gas and dust from an exploded…
Black-Hole Hunter
XRISM, a Japanese X-ray telescope scheduled for launch as early as this month, stares into space in this artist's concept.…
Future Fireworks
Monster stars are being born in this massive cloud of gas and dust. Known as the Vulpecula OB1 association, it's…
Big Impact
NASA recently released this sequence of images captured by Hubble Space Telescope when the DART spacecraft rammed into the small…
Close Passage
The planets Venus and Jupiter, which are the two brightest objects in the night sky other than the Moon, will…
Ready to Expand
The Moon backlights the IceCube neutrino observatory at the south pole. The observatory uses special detectors buried deep in the…
A Burst of Stars
A burst of stars forms Messier 79, a globular cluster in Lepus, the hare. The cluster, which is about 42,000…
Gobs of Planets
This artist's concept shows the Trappist-1 star system. It consists of a red dwarf star, which is much smaller, cooler,…
On the Edge
Apollo 17 astronaut Jack Schmitt walks near the rim of Shorty Crater during one of the missions three moonwalks. Schmitt…