NASA citizen science project, Jovian Vortex Hunter, seeks your help spotting vortices – spiral wind patterns – and other on...
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Our sky is alive with the streams of stars. The motions of 26 million Milky Way stars are evident in...
The last rays of an orbital sunset burst through Earth's horizon as the International Space Station flew 258 miles above...
It is difficult to hide a galaxy behind a cluster of galaxies. The closer cluster's gravity will act like a...
It is difficult to hide a galaxy behind a cluster of galaxies. The closer cluster's gravity will act like a...
Near the horizon the full moon often seems to loom large, swollen in appearance by the famous Moon illusion. But...
This moon is doomed. Mars, the red planet named for the Roman god of war, has two tiny moons, Phobos...
For the northern hemisphere June 21 was the summer solstice, the Sun reaching its northernmost declination for the year. That...
An adult osprey, carrying a fish in its talons, prepares to land in its nest atop a speaker platform in...
Stars trail through a clear morning sky in this postcard from a rotating planet. The timelapse image is constructed from...
Most of Greenland's glaciers that empty into the ocean are at greater risk of rapid ice loss than previously understood....
An adult osprey, carrying a fish in its talons, prepares to land in its nest atop a platform in the...
Imaged on June 20 2022, comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) shares this wide telescopic field of view with open star cluster...
Brightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud appear almost like an ocean current. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/turquoise-plumes-in-the-large-magellanic-cloud
Brightly glowing plumes of the Large Magellanic Cloud appear almost like an ocean current. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/turquoise-plumes-in-the-large-magellanic-cloud
Yes, but have you ever seen all of the planets at once? A rare roll-call of planets has been occurring...
The CAPSTONE mission launched at 5:55 a.m. EDT (09:55 UTC) on Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket from New Zealand. via NASA...
Which part of the Moon is this? No part -- because this is the planet Mercury. Mercury's old surface is...
