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There, that dot on the right, that's the largest rock known in our Solar System. It is larger than every...
Makemake (sounds like MAH-kay MAH-kay), second brightest dwarf planet of the Kuiper belt, has a moon. Nicknamed MK2, Makemake's moon...
At this year's end Mars still shines brightly in planet Earth's night as it wanders through the head-strong constellation Taurus....
This image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft’s HIRISE instrument on Oct. 23, 2022, of the northern plains...
The Horsehead Nebula, famous celestial dark marking also known as Barnard 33, is notched against a background glow of emission...
Charles Messier described the 88th entry in his 18th century catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters as a spiral nebula...
The James Webb Space Telescope spies the spiral galaxy NGC 7469, located 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation...
Have you ever seen an entire rainbow? From the ground, typically, only the top portion of a rainbow is visible...
The star at the center created everything. Known as the Dragon's Egg, this star -- a rare, hot, luminous O-type...
Asteroid 3200 Phaethon's annual gift to planet Earth always arrives in December. Otherwise known as the Geminid meteor shower, the...
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year...
On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit...
This is what Saturn looks like from inside the rings. In 2017, for the first time, NASA directed the Cassini...
Hawaii's big island and its two major volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa rest under a partly cloudy sky on...
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is truly a majestic island universe some 200,000 light-years across. Located a mere 60 million...
By taking a closer look at one of Webb’s first images, the iconic Cosmic Cliffs, scientists have found dozens of...
