Gamma-ray burst GRB 221009A likely signals the birth of a new black hole, formed at the core of a collapsing...
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The Full Moon of October 9th was the second Full Moon after the northern hemisphere autumnal equinox, traditionally called the...
What are those strange rings? Rich in dust, the rings are likely 3D shells -- but how they were created...
Expedition 67 flight engineers Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are all smiles in this Sept. 12, 2022, image from the...
A mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth's sky. In the...
The Sun released an X1 solar flare, captured by our Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on Oct. 2, 2022. via NASA...
What dark structures arise within the Pelican Nebula? On the whole, the nebula appears like a bird (a pelican) and...
An analemma is that figure-8 curve you get when you mark the position of the Sun at the same time...
Gusting solar winds and blasts of charged particles from the Sun resulted in several rewarding nights of auroras back in...
Heading for its closest approach to the Sun or perihelion on December 20, comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) remains a sight...
In this 20-second exposure from Oct. 5, 2022, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft is...
At opposition, opposite the Sun in Earth's sky, late last month Jupiter is also approaching perihelion, the closest point to...
Astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor installs samples for the Microgravity Investigation of Cement Solidification (MICS) experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS)...
NGC 4631 is a big beautiful spiral galaxy. Seen edge-on, it lies only 25 million light-years away in the well-trained...
Astronaut Nicole Mann sits inside a T-38 trainer jet at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas in this image from Nov....
What happens if you crash a spaceship into an asteroid? In the case of NASA's DART spaceship and the small...
On September 28, the Landsat 8 satellite passed directly over Ian’s eye as the storm approached southwest Florida. The natural-color...
The whole thing looks like an eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula's center, however, shows the bright region...
