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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the edge-on, intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 1827, located roughly 37 million light-years away in the constellation Columba, the Dove.

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The Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured a "violent cosmic collision in which one galaxy pierces another with intense radiation," according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Credit: ESO Directed by: Angelos Tsaousis and Martin

Incredible Views Of SpaceX Starship Re-Entering Earth's Atmosphere. Credit: SpaceX

NASA is playing an important role in JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission, to advance our understanding of Mars’ moons and build on the agency’s long history of exploring the Red Planet. The mission aims to characterize and determine the origin of Mars’

What was once just an animation is now a breathtaking reality. This epic video shows SpaceX's Starship successfully deploying V3 Starlink satellites, a major milestone in the company's quest for rapid and reusable space access.

NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the Moon’s surface. Additional engineering data analysis of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield confirmed initial data showing the heat shield performed as e

NASA has selected 12 U.S. institutions to receive $12 million to accelerate academic research and technology development in support of the agency’s priorities for exploring the Moon, Mars, and deep space. Through NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Space Technology Arte

James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Oldest Known Galaxy

A formation of radio waves looks remarkably like a treble clef in this Oct. 14, 2026, image from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Researchers used Chandra to find that the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst from a supermassive black hole, followed by a collision of two galaxy clusters. Rea

Fly through the cosmos to the star-forming region NGC 7129. This video showcases the incredible power of the James Webb Space Telescope to see through dust and gas, unveiling the intricate and colorful details of where stars are born.

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The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared and Mid-Infrared instruments (NIRCam & MIRI) have delivered imagery of interacting galaxies IC 1623, located 270 million light-years from Earth. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus & A. Evans, N. Bartmann | edited by Ste

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured imagery of interacting elliptical and spiral galaxies known as Arp 107. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has passed 5,000 Martian days on Mars. Explore what it found, from ancient lakes to organic molecules. The evidence shows that ancient Gale Crater had conditions that could support microbial life. Curiosity has not found life. 0:00 A grey powder on Mars 0:35 Landing in Ga

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: Space.com | imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: The Ethereal by Ave Air / courtesy of Epidem

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to break down the cause of a remarkable formation of radio waves they have nicknamed the “Treble Clef” because its distinct shape strongly resembles the musical symbol. The researchers discovered the Treble Clef is likely caused by an outburst f

If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold of the Moon’s South Pole, where nighttime te

NASA will provide an update on its plans to return American astronauts to the surface of the Moon by 2028 at 2 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 23, at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Learn where to watch online: https://www.nasa.gov/live Participants in the briefing include: The update will incl

What a cosmic coincidence! In today’s image, Mars joins the Beehive cluster below an auroral curtain and above a horizon of happy little trees near Lansjärv, Sweden.

What if the Moon never existed? It's not just darkness — without the Moon, Earth's tides freeze, our axis wobbles, and seasons collapse. The Moon is the anchor of our world. In this 35-second documentary short from Beyond What If, we explore the real physics behind one of the most mind-bending "what

"Two massive stars in Wolf-Rayet 140 swing past one another, their winds collide, material compresses, and carbon-rich dust forms," according to NASA. Time-lapsed James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the system has revealed that every shell is racing away from the stars at almost 1% the speed of li