Busy Rover
The Perseverance rover stopped to look back on its path as it climbed toward the rim of Jezero Crater on…
Comet
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS is growing brighter and easier to find in the evening sky. These diagrams show its rough location in…
Comet from ISS
Astronaut Donald Pettit snapped this photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from the International Space Station on September 23. The comet has…
Earthshine from ISS
The crescent Moon rises above Earth’s horizon in this May 2024 image from the International Space Station. Although the Sun…
X-Flare Sept 14
A brilliant solar flare erupts on September 14, as recorded by a Sun-watching space telescope. Radiation from the outburst disrupted…
Fireball Over Cairo
A brilliant meteor (green object at top center) streaks above Cairo in this September 2 image from the International Space…
Inca City Mars
The walls of ‘Inca City’ rise near the south polar ice cap of Mars in this image from Mars Express,…
JUICE snaps Moon
The Moon looms in front of JUICE, a European spacecraft designed to study the moons of Jupiter, during an August…
NGC 1333
Clouds of gas and dust veil vigorous young stellar nurseries in this Hubble Space Telescope view of NGC 1333, a…
Moon Bounce
Navy technicians listen for radio signals bounced off the surface of the Moon aboard the USS Oxford, in the early…