Hubble captures a luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the barred spiral galaxy IC 486 glows with a soft, ethereal light.

Leo is a prominent sight for stargazers in April. Its famous sickle, punctuated by the bright star Regulus, draws many a beginning stargazer’s eyes, inviting ...

On April 6, 2026, the crew of Artemis II reached a milestone, traveling farther than any humans in recorded history, as they orbited the far side of the Moon, ...

NASA has selected 10 participating scientists to help shape a science plan for astronauts to complete on the lunar surface under the Artemis program – ...

The animation above shows the change in global surface temperatures. The period used to calculate the average for comparison is 1951 – 1980. Dark blue shows areas cooler than average. Dark red shows ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012 inside Gale Crater, which lies on the boundary between Mars' cratered southern highlands and its smooth, northern plains. Follow Curiosity’s ...

Different colors of light have different wavelengths and energy. (Human eyes detect differences in wavelength and energy as differences in color.) Light toward the red end of the spectrum has longer ...

The Moon’s atmosphere contains about one million billion (10 15) times fewer molecules per cubic centimeter than Earth’s does. This is primarily because Earth is more massive (so it has a stronger ...

In October of 1959, the Luna 3 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Luna 3 was the third spacecraft to reach the Moon and the first to send back pictures of the Moon's far ...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet ...

Kelsey Young, Trevor Graff, and Angela Garcia—are pioneering a new era of mission operations by integrating advanced lunar ...

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