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Largest comet ever discovered is heading toward the sun — but no need to panic

This illustration shows the distant Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein as it might look in the outer Solar System. Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein is estimated to be about 1000 times more massive than a typical comet, making it arguably the largest comet discovered in modern times. It has an extremely elongated orbit, journeying inward from the distant Oort Cloud over millions of years. It is the most distant comet to be discovered on its incoming path.

How to watch a Russian film team launch to the ISS this week

The Soyuz MS-18 rocket is launched with Expedition 65 NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Oleg Novitskiy, Friday, April 9, 2021, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Hubble captures a galaxy with a highly energetic nucleus

Meet NGC 5728, a spiral galaxy around 130 million light-years from Earth. This image was captured using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), which is extremely sensitive to visible and infrared light. Therefore, this image beautifully captures the regions of NGC 5728 that are emitting visible and infrared light.

Astronomers discover bizarre exoplanet orbiting three stars

An image of GW Orionis, a triple star system with a mysterious gap in its surrounding dust rings. UNLV astronomers hypothesize the presence of a massive planet in the gap, which would be the first planet ever discovered to orbit three stars. The left image, provided by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope, shows the disc’s ringed structure, with the innermost ring separated from the rest of the disc. The observations in the right image show the shadow of the innermost ring on the rest of the disc. UNLV astronomers used observations from ALMA to construct a comprehensive model of the star system.

The Perseverance rover is a tiny speck in this image of Mars taken from orbit

The white speck is NASA's Perseverance rover in the "South Séítah" area of Mars' Jezero Crater. The image was taken by the agency's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera.

Virgin Galactic cleared to resume space flights following FAA investigation

Virgin Galactic's spaceplane soaring to the edge of space.

See SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft streaking through the sky as it returns to Earth

Dragon reenters Earth’s atmosphere before splashing down off the coast of Florida – completing the fifth reentry of a Dragon spacecraft this year,

NASA’s Lucy mission will soon be heading out to investigate Trojan asteroids

The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Centaur stage for NASA’s Lucy mission is lifted by crane into the Vertical Integration Facility near Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021.

BepiColombo mission snaps images of Mercury on its first flyby

The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on 1 October 2021 as the spacecraft flew past the planet for a gravity assist maneuver.

NASA reveals date for SpaceX’s next astronaut launch

The four astronauts heading to the space station in October 2021.

Check out these cool Earth images taken from higher up than the ISS

Earth as seen from the Crew Dragon during the Inspiration4 mission.

NASA’s Mars helicopter decided not to take its 14th flight

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How to watch SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon depart space station on Thursday

SpaceX's Cargo Dragon CRS-23 docked with the International Space Station.

Why NASA is about to cut contact with its Mars explorers

NASA's Mars explorers.

An alarm sounded during SpaceX’s Inspiration4 mission. Here’s why

The all-civilian crew heading to space in September 2021.

Hubble peered through dust and gas to capture this dazzling globular cluster

This sparkling starfield, captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, contains the globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6).

Researchers spot clouds in the atmosphere of big, puffy exoplanet WASP-127b

This is an artistic simulation of WASP 127b orbiting a star.

See the moon’s Tycho Crater in stunning detail, captured from the ground

Partially processed view of the Tycho Crater at a resolution of nearly five meters by five meters and containing approximately 1.4 billion pixels, taken during a radar project by Green Bank Observatory, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and Raytheon Intelligence & Space using the Green Bank Telescope and antennas in the Very Long Baseline Array. This image covers an area 200km by 175km, which is large enough to contain the 86km-diameter Tycho Crater.

These women are spending a week in bed to research the effects of spaceflight

Female volunteer in dry immersion study.

Molten ring in space allows Hubble to peer 9 billion years into the past

The narrow galaxy elegantly curving around its spherical companion in this image is a fantastic example of a truly strange and very rare phenomenon. This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s, located in the southern hemisphere constellation of Fornax (The Furnace). GAL-CLUS-022058s is the largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our Universe.

China’s lunar sample contains glassy beads and impact fragments

Panoramic image taken after sampling of the lunar surface by Chang’e-5. The four dark trenches in the lower right corner of this image are where samples were collected. Abundant centimetre-sized boulders exist on the surface around the Chang’e-5 landing site.

Perseverance selfie shows it’s been a busy Mars rover of late

Using its WATSON camera, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover took this selfie over a rock nicknamed “Rochette,” on Sept.10, 2021, the 198th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Two holes can be seen where the rover used its robotic arm to drill rock core samples.

Researchers create lunar life support system by baking moon dust

Artist impression of a Moon Base concept, with solar arrays for energy generation, greenhouses for food production, and habitats shielded with regolith.

InSight lander measures one of its biggest-ever marsquakes shaking the planet

This selfie of NASA’s InSight lander is a mosaic made up of 14 images taken on March 15 and April 11 – the 106th and 133rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission – by the spacecraft Instrument Deployment Camera located on its robotic arm.

ISS astronaut reveals how he captures stunning Earth photos

Astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the International Space Station's observation module.

SpaceX crewmember has colorful response to first view of Earth

A view of the Crew Dragon's cupola in space.

Spacewalk time-lapse reveals the fiddly work of an astronaut

Two astronauts conduct a spacewalk at the International Space Station.

Astronaut shows off views from ISS module after Crew Dragon success

The view from the space station's cupola.

NASA reveals landing site for its water-hunting lunar rover

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All-civilian SpaceX crew took this out-of-this-world selfie

SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew in orbit.

Volcanoes on Mars exploded in ‘super eruptions’ that blotted out the sun

This image shows several craters in Arabia Terra that are filled with layered rock, often exposed in rounded mounds. The bright layers are roughly the same thickness, giving a stair-step appearance. The process that formed these sedimentary rocks is not yet well understood. They could have formed from sand or volcanic ash that was blown into the crater, or in water if the crater hosted a lake. The image was taken by a camera, the High Resolution Imaging Experiment, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The final, dying outbursts of an unstable star are captured by Hubble

In this image of AG Carinae, the blue demonstrates the contrasting appearance of the distribution of the dust that shines of reflected stellar light.

Watch the best bits from SpaceX’s historic all-civilian mission

Jared Isaacman looking out out of the Crew Dragon's cupola.

SpaceX Inspiration4 civilian crew land safely off Florida coast

The Inspiration4 crew splashdown safely off the coast of Florida at 7:06 p.m. ET on Saturday, September 18.

Seasonal variations are making flying on Mars harder for helicopter Ingenuity

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter acquired this image using its navigation camera during its 13th flight on Sep. 5, 2021 (Sol 193 of the Perseverance rover mission) at the local mean solar time of 12:06:30.

Three astronauts land safely after China’s longest crewed space mission to date

Astronauts Nie Haisheng (C), Liu Boming (R) and Tang Hongbo are out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-12 spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Sept. 17, 2021. Three Chinese astronauts, the first sent to orbit for space station construction, have completed their three-month mission and returned to Earth safely on Friday.

Hear the sounds of space with these Chandra sonifications

Westerlund 2, a cluster of young stars — about one to two million years old — located about 20,000 light years from Earth.

Inspiration4 crew shares an update on their mission from orbit

The Inspiration4 crew answering questions while in orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

See the surface of Mars in 3D thanks to the Ingenuity helicopter

This 3D view of a rock mound called “Faillefeu” was created from data collected by NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter during its 13th flight at Mars on Sept. 4, 2021.

How to watch the all-civilian Inspiration4 crew return to Earth today

The Inspiration4 crew that will be heading to space in September.

SpaceX tracker lets you see real-time location of all-civilian space crew

SpaceX's Inspiration4 mission tracker.

NASA’s interactive Mars experience lets you work with its rover

NASA's Mars rover simulator.

First view from new Crew Dragon shows marble-like Earth

The glass dome on SpaceX's modified Crew Dragon spacecraft.

SpaceX successfully launches the first all-civilian crew to space

SpaceX launching the Inspiration4 mission.

How to watch SpaceX launch its first all-civilian mission

The all-civilian crew heading to space in September 2021.

Scientists find a surprising way to create concrete for Mars buildings

budweiser beer mars colony

Meet SpaceX’s Inspiration4 crew in pre-launch Q&A session

SpaceX's Inspiration4 crew taking questions from the press.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reveals mysterious space venture

apple co founder steve wozniak reveals mysterious space gig gives lecture in moscow

SpaceX eyes weather for first civilian orbital mission on Wednesday

The all-civilian crew heading to space in September 2021.

Researchers have simulated a virtual universe, and you can download it for free

The Uchuu simulation, the most detailed simulation of the universe to date.
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