View larger. | NASA’s Perseverance rover captured this view of the light-toned rock outcrop Bright Angel…
Category: Earth Sky
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…
Shorelines of Titan’s seas likely shaped by waves
View larger. | Artist’s concept of Kraken Mare, the largest methane/ethane sea on Titan. A new…
The End of Everything, LIVE, with Katie Mack
Katherine J. (Katie) Mack is a theoretical cosmologist who holds the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and…
Did colliding dark matter shape the El Gordo galaxy cluster?
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the most massive cluster of galaxies in existence yet known.…