NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing for each pulse).
NASA’s Juno spacecraft passed north-to-south (yellow track) over Jupiter’s atmosphere on 17 August 2022, detecting a cluster of radio pulses from lightning (cyan symbols marking instrument pointing for each pulse).
A team of US astronomers has carried out one of the deepest analyses to date of a sample from the asteroid Bennu, revealing new details about how water and organic
The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record.
NASA On April 4, 2026, NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft’s main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the
Early observations from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have already revealed more than 11,000 previously unknown asteroids, reshaping our view of the solar system and offering a striking preview of
On Christmas Eve 1968, the crew of NASA’s Apollo 8 moon mission captured the “Earthrise” photograph, which is perhaps the most famous image ever taken from space. Soon, the astronauts
This is a model of the inner solar system. The outermost orbit shown is that of Jupiter. The dark blue ring represents known asteroids in the asteroid belt. The light
Observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS by the JANUS camera on ESA’s Juice mission. Juice caught the comet on November 5, 2025, when it was 64 million kilometers (40 million miles) away
Considering it’s ostensibly a children’s toy company, Lego sure has been targeting the grown-up market for the past few years. And who can blame them? Targeting the wallets of millennials
WASHINGTON — As Artemis 2 approaches the moon, a NASA science team is finalizing plans for the observations they want the astronauts to perform during their flyby. At an April






