View larger. | Jupiter and its Great Red Spot in near-infrared light from Webb, using its…
Category: Earth Sky
The Tunguska explosion rocked Siberia 116 years ago
Watch a video about the 1908 Tunguska explosion. The Tunguska explosion: June 30, 1908 On today’s…
Juno zooms in on Io’s volcanoes
The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured 2 volcanic plumes rising above the horizon of…
Perseverance rover explores Bright Angel in ancient riverbed
View larger. | NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of the light-toned rock outcrop Bright Angel…
Habitable exoplanets could exist around nearby stars
View larger. | Left, a 3-dimensional map showing stars near the sun. Right, an artist’s concept…
Asteroid Bennu sample suggests an ocean world origin
View larger. | A tiny fraction of the asteroid Bennu sample returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission,…
Asteroid Day to be observed worldwide on June 30
Asteroids are small rocky bodies, left over from the formation of the solar system. Most orbit…
Pillars of Creation visualized in multiwavelength 3D
This image is a mosaic of visible-light and infrared-light views of the same frame from the…
Star clusters found in the Cosmic Gems arc by Webb
Massive star clusters found in early universe Young galaxies in the early universe underwent phases of…
Chang’e 6 moon mission returns 1st far side sample to Earth
The China National Space Administration’s (CNSA) Chang’e 6 lunar lander sits on the southern portion of…