Swirling Beauty
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51, spins through space in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Discovered 250 years…
The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51, spins through space in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Discovered 250 years…
The Sun encircles the intervening Moon with a bright ring of fire in this image, which was taken during an…
Pioneer 1, NASA's first attempt to reach the Moon, is readied for launch on October 11, 1958. NASA had inherited…
A star that astronomer Edwin Hubble viewed 100 years ago this month changed our concept of the universe. The star,…
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NASA is scheduled to launch Psyche, a mission to study an asteroid of the same name, as early as October…
The "hot Jupiter" planet Wasp 18 orbits its parent star in this artist's concept. Hot Jupiters are giant worlds similar…
A recent image from James Webb Space Telescope shows giant plumes and water and ice erupting from the south pole…
The Osiris-Rex spacecraft is scheduled to drop a capsule containing samples from the surface of the asteroid Bennu into Earth's…
An embryonic star fires high-speed jets of particles away from its poles, forming shockwaves as it rams into gas and…
A good home for future lunar colonists might be pit craters — holes in the surface that are part of…