Rare View
Giant cells of hot gas bubble to the surface of Antares, the bright heart of the scorpion, in this image,…
Shooting the Moon
A laser beam takes aim at the Moon during a total lunar eclipse in 2014. Astronomers first bounced a laser…
Digging In
Small containers hold samples of the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft. The craft returned the samples to…
Beautiful Crossing
Venus and Jupiter, the brightest objects in the night sky after the Moon, will stage a spectacular encounter at dawn…
Good as Gold
A meteor exploded above Sutter's Mill, California–site of the 1848 California gold rush–on April 22, 2012, triggering a new rush…
Good Times
Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke works at the lunar rover during one of three moonwalks. He and John Young spent…
Penultimate Mission
Apollo 16, the next-to-last mission to the Moon, launches in April 1972. It landed in a rugged region in the…
Close Companions
Earth looms large above the surface of the Moon in this photograph from the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. It…
Galaxies Galore
Galaxies stretch from edge to edge in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the Coma Cluster, a collection of more…
Bubbly Surroundings
The birth of most of the young stars near the Sun may have been triggered by an expending bubble of…