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A faint, slightly yellowish point of light—Comet 3I/ATLAS—appears near the center of a grainy, brown-toned background captured by the SOHO/LASCO C3 coronagraph between October 15–26, 2025. The comet is only marginally brighter than the surrounding noise, making it difficult to distinguish.

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Comet 3I/ATLAS Image Gallery

November 19, 2025

Updated: Comet Trajectory (.mp4) This sequence of four animated views shows the path of comet 3I/ATLAS during its…

NASA Flights Study Cosmic Ray Effects for Air, Future Space Travelers

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NASA Flights Study Cosmic Ray Effects for Air, Future Space Travelers

September 25, 2025

Recent airborne science flights to Greenland are improving NASA’s understanding of space weather by measuring radiation exposure to…

A false-color, close-up image of Earth’s exosphere as captured by the Carruthers Geocorona Observatory against a dark blue background. The image shows a semicircle glowing yellow and outlined in red.

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New NASA Mission to Reveal Earth’s Invisible ‘Halo’

September 22, 2025

This story is also available in Spanish. A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth’s invisible “halo,”…

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.

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NASA Sets Launch Coverage for Space Weather Missions

September 15, 2025

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