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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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Glittering Glimpse of Star Birth From NASA’s Webb Telescope

September 4, 2025

This is a sparkling scene of star birth captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to…

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Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler

August 26, 2025

Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA…

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NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation

August 22, 2025

Asteroid Bennu, sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020, is a mixture of dust that formed in our…

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The image shows two side-by-side black and white photographs set against a completely black background. Left photograph: A bright, irregularly shaped object with a textured, uneven surface appears as a light gray to white form against the black background. Right photograph: A similar bright object is visible, but with a very bright white area on the bottom left. Extending from this bright area are several radial streaks or lines that stretch outward into the black background. Both images have similar framing, with the bright objects positioned in the upper portion of each frame and some streaking patterns visible in the lower portions of both images.

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 16, 2025

Editor’s Note: The headline of this article was updated on August 14 to to clarify the nature of…

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Webb Narrows Atmospheric Possibilities for Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

August 13, 2025

The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system because it is…

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