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A triptych illustration shows the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory facing the Sun, the IMAP spacecraft mapping the heliosphere, and SWFO-L1 monitoring space weather near Earth.

September 16, 2025

NASA will provide live coverage of prelaunch and launch activities for an observatory designed to study space weather…

$Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.$

September 10, 2025

A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James…

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NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

September 8, 2025

Scientists are in the midst of observing the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Careful…

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Two side-by-side black and white images of the Didymos asteroid system taken 20 seconds apart. Left: Didymos is a bright rounded object, in the upper left third of the image. It is brightly lit from below. Underneath and to the right, the much smaller asteroid Dimorphos is a small, gray dot with a plume of light, radial streaks bursting out from its left half. Right: Twenty seconds later, Didymos has rotated so its right half is more in shadow and its lower left half is brightly lit, as though a light bulb sits on its surface. Dimorphos and Didymos have moved relative to each other, so now Dimorphos is to the right of Didymos, but still below it. The ejected plume has expanded further out into space.

August 21, 2025

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into…

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A grayscale image shows an uneven surface with various textures, including smooth areas, ridges, and depressions. The surface features several small, round indentations, as well as larger, irregularly shaped mounds and valleys. A thin, winding line crosses diagonally through the image, resembling a fissure or channel. A small white "x" marks the center of the image. A scale bar in the bottom right corner indicates 2 km.

August 15, 2025

As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the surface of the Moon’s south polar region for the first…

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Against the blackness of space, a boxy, metallic spacecraft dominates the frame. Two "wings" of solar panels stick out from its sides. Below is the bright, cloudy limb of Earth.

August 12, 2025

To drive the development of key space-based capabilities for the United States, NASA is exploring an opportunity to…

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A colorful nebula. The image’s top-left is filled with layers of fluffy pink and greenish clouds. Long strands of green clouds stretch out from here; a faint layer of translucent blue dust combines with them to create a three-dimensional scene. A sparse network of dark dust clouds in the foreground adds reddish-black patches atop the nebula. Blue-white and orange stars, from our galaxy and beyond, are spread throughout the clouds.

August 8, 2025

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures incredible details in the dusty clouds of a star-forming factory called…

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NASA’s Webb Traces Details of Complex Planetary Nebula

July 30, 2025

Since their discovery in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that planetary nebulae, or the expanding shell of…

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