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,…
The Bull’s Face
The stars of the Hyades cluster form the V-shaped face of Taurus, the bull. (The brightest star, Aldebaran, which represents…
The Astronomer
Sculptor Tim Wetherell created this work, called “The Astronomer,” from the salvaged pieces of a telescope that was destroyed in…
Messier 87
A “jet” of hot gas erupts from center of the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 in this image from Hubble…
First Flight
Rocket pioneer Robert Goddard stands beside the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket, which took flight on March 16, 1926, from his…