NASA/Nichole Ayers NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers took this photo of California’s San Francisco Bay Area surrounded by the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, and their suburbs on
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Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in
5 min read Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer
Technicians conduct blanket closeout work on NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) observatory at the Astrotech Space Operations Facility near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, Aug.
A new study suggests that the planets in our solar system may be helping to keep the sun calmer than other sun-like stars, potentially lowering the risk of powerful solar
In the dark of night, SpaceX will launch the mysterious X-37B space plane for the U.S. Space Force (USSF). A Falcon 9 rocket will launch the mission, USSF-36, from Pad
Despite the arrival of privately funded lunar mining companies, advancements in space resource legislation (such as the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015) and lunar prospecting missions such as
The sun unleashed two spectacular prominence eruptions on Aug. 20 — and they may be among the most jaw-dropping events of the entire solar cycle. First came a colossal eruption
This story was originally published by the NASA Webb Mission Team. Edits by EarthSky. Editor’s note: This post highlights data from Webb science in progress, which has not yet been
On August 8, 2025, NASA‘s Curiosity rover found itself at the intersection of three ridges found on the Martian landscape. This “peace sign” shape, as called by NASA engineers, is
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