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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 13, 2025

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

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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$Three panels, each showing a different view of the binary star system Alpha Centauri. The panel at the left is a Digitized Sky Survey image showing a single bright point source at the center of a black image with small stars scattered throughout. The very center of this bright source is outlined with a vertical box, tilted slightly to the left, with two diagonal lines leading to the second panel. The Hubble Space Telescope image shows two white stars with 4 diffraction spikes each against a black background. The top star is labeled Alpha Cen B and the bottom Alpha Cen A. Alpha Cen A is outlined with a white square with two diagonal lines leading to the third panel at the furthest right, which shows a James Webb Space Telescope image of the star. Within a large white circle there is a blurry red-toned field with an orange star icon and central black circle outlined in white marking the location of Alpha Cen A. A bright orange blob at 9 o’clock in relation to the star is labeled “S1” and circled.$

August 8, 2025

Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star…

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A top-down view of a spiral galaxy, showing its brightly-shining center, its broad spiral arms, and the faint halo around its disk, as well as distant galaxies and stars on a dark background. Large blue clouds of gas speckled with small stars and strands of dark dust swirl around the galaxy’s disk. A couple of the background galaxies are large enough that their own swirling spiral arms are visible.

August 1, 2025

Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309…

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NASA Installs Key ‘Sunblock’ Shield on Roman Space Telescope

August 1, 2025

Technicians have successfully installed two sunshields onto NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s inner segment. Along with the…

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July 24, 2025

An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using…

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