A ‘new star’ from a nova outburst is expected soon

Artist’s conception of red giant star and white dwarf. A stream of material flows from the…

A message to Europa from the people of Earth

Here’s one side of a commemorative plate mounted on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft. It features U.S.…

What are Hubble and Webb looking at right now?

The Space Telescope Live webapp gives up-to-the-minute details about what the Hubble and Webb space telescopes…

How ice shells of ocean moons provide clues to habitability

View larger. | The Cassini spacecraft caught this view of the surface of Enceladus. A new…

Earth-passing asteroid seen in new radar images

View larger. | NASA scientists used the Goldstone Solar System Radar in California to capture these…

1st-ever metal scar on a cannibal star

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have found a metal…

See dozens of planet-forming disks in groundbreaking survey

Check out the stunning new images of planet-forming disks around young stars. These observations showcase 86…

Did passing stars change Earth’s orbit?

What was Earth’s orbit like more than 50 million years ago? According to a new study,…

Ancient volcanoes on Mars were diverse

NASA’s Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) captured this view of the mighty Olympus Mons volcano on Mars…

New moons! Uranus now has 28 and Neptune 16

Astronomers captured this image of a new moon of Uranus – labeled S/2023 U1 by astronomers…