Hoping for Success
Hope, a Mars mission from the United Arab Emirates, is depicted in orbit around the Red Planet in this artist’s…
Moonshine
Sunlight creates a dramatic reflection off Antares, the Apollo 14 lunar module, which touched down on the Moon 50 years…
Changing Skies?
Thin layers of haze hang above the surface of Pluto in this view from the New Horizons spacecraft. There’s evidence…
Young Family
The star cluster NGC 2323 sparkles with young, blue stars, indicating that the cluster itself is still quite young–only about…
Lifetime of a Star
This diagram shows the 10-billion-year life cycle of the Sun. The Sun was born about 4.6 billion years ago from…
Metallic Skies
WASP-121b, a planet about 850 light-years from Earth, is being slowly eroded by radiation and winds from its host star.…
Moonbeams
The U.S. Army bounced radar signals off the Moon on January 10, 1946. The experiment, Project Diana, was designed to…
Crowded Skies
Dust glows blue in this image of Messier 35, a young star cluster in Gemini. Some of the dust, which…
Close to the Sun
The Sun glistens above Earth’s limb in this image from the International Space Station. Earth is closest to the Sun…
Cosmic Fireworks
A supergiant star explodes then fades away in this sequence of images from Hubble Space Telescope. The star exploded in…