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View larger/ full image. | This new image of 3I/ATLAS shows the interstellar comet shining against a background of stars. The European Space Agency’s JUICE spacecraft obtained this image and

View larger. | This new moon map shows a global view of small mare ridges in maria on the moon’s near side. A new study said these small ridges are

Artist’s concept of a tardigrade, or water bear, floating in space. These creatures are small, about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. But a new study

A new study from Johns Hopkins University said that lifeforms can survive an asteroid impact and a journey to another planet. Image via Buddy Nath/ Pixabay. Tiny microbes can survive

This brief video gives you a look at the new image of the Milky Way center taken in radio wavelengths. It’s the largest image the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)

View larger. | Webb used its Near InfraRed Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument to take this near-infrared view of the upper atmosphere of Uranus in January 2025. The bright spots are auroral

This is an artist’s impression of the dying star WOH G64. It’s more than 160,000 light-years away, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It’s one of the biggest stars in the

This artist’s illustration represents the start of the alert stream from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The summit facility is on a rocky ridge with the Milky Way above. The

View larger. | NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this closeup view of some of the red planet’s boxwork – or “spiderweb” – formations on September 26, 2025. These “spiderwebs” on Mars