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Hired by NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1963, Josephine Jue was a Chinese-American computer programmer and mathematician who...

How did we get here? We know that we live on a planet orbiting a star orbiting a galaxy, but...

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket stands on Pad B, Launch Complex 1, in Māhia, New Zealand, just ahead of a...

Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The first hint of our Sun's future was discovered inadvertently...

What glows there? The answer depends: sea or sky? In the sea, the unusual blue glow is bioluminescence. Specifically, the...

This asteroid has a moon. The robot spacecraft Galileo on route to Jupiter in 1993 encountered and photographed two asteroids...

Gliding through the outer Solar System, in 1989 the Voyager 2 spacecraft looked toward the Sun to find this view...

The jellyfish galaxy JW39 hangs serenely in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-captures-a-drifting-galaxy

Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster are scattered across this nearly 4 degree wide telescopic field of view. About 50 million...

"If I can advocate for all the groups that need equity, I'm glad to do it." – Anita Dey, Strategic...

The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the best known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its more familiar...

Two black-bellied whistling ducks walk through a field of wildflowers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 19, 2023....

Sometimes we witness the Moon moving directly in front of -- called occulting -- one of the planets in our...

The SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft, named Freedom, is seen as it approaches the International Space Station with four Axiom Mission...

Big storms are different on Jupiter. On Earth, huge hurricanes and colossal cyclones are centered on regions of low pressure,...

Scores of baby stars shrouded by dust are revealed in this infrared image of the star-forming region NGC 2174. via...

A nearby star has exploded and humanity's telescopes are turning to monitor it. The supernova, dubbed SN 2023ifx, was discovered...

Is this an alien? Probably not, but of all the animals on Earth, the tardigrade might be the best candidate....