Morning, Noon, and (Almost) Night
The Curiosity rover shot a series of images of its location in Gale Crater on Mars in November, which NASA…
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The Curiosity rover shot a series of images of its location in Gale Crater on Mars in November, which NASA…
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SLIM, a Japanese Moon lander, entered lunar orbit on December 25 (Japanese time), as depicted in this illustration. The craft…
This animation depicts Jupiter and its massive radiation belts and magnetic field. The belts are fed by particles from the…
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This infrared image from Webb Space Telescope shows one of the oldest galaxies ever discovered. Known as Maisie's Galaxy, we…
The planet Saturn, shown here in a 2007 image from the Cassini spacecraft, rotates rapidly, so a "day" on the…
Betelgeuse, the supergiant star that marks the shoulder of Orion the hunter, will briefly vanish on the night of September…
This artist's concept depicts Pioneer 10 flying past Jupiter 50 years ago. It was the first mission to the giant…
GUSTO, a balloon-borne telescope that will study the wisps of gas and dust between the stars, is scheduled to launch…
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An "X-class" solar flare erupts from the limb of the Sun in this 2014 image. X flares are the most…
A stellar corpse is racing away from its "birthplace" at more than two million miles per hour, leaving a glowing…