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Cool time-lapse shows space station do an entire orbit of Earth

A time-lapse from the space station.

Michael Strahan describes Blue Origin rocket ride as ‘a special journey’

New Shepard lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas for the NS-16 mission on July 20, 2021.

Hubble image captures a stunning spiral galaxy in the constellation of Aquila

This astronomical portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases an edge-on view of the majestic spiral galaxy UGC 11537. The infrared and visible light capabilities of Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 have captured the galaxy’s tightly wound spiral arms swirling around its heart. The image reveals the bright bands of stars and the dark clouds of dust threading throughout the galaxy.

How to watch the Geminid meteor shower this week, in person or online

All meteors appear to come from the same place in the sky, which is called the radiant. The Geminids appear to radiate from a point in the constellation Gemini, hence the name “Geminids.” The graphic shows the radiants of 388 meteors with speeds of 35 km/s observed by the NASA Fireball Network in December 2020. All the radiants are in Gemini, which means they belong to the Geminid shower.

A stunning infrared nebula hides astronomical objects of interest

This ethereal image, captured from Chile by the international Gemini Observatory, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, looks as delicate as a butterfly’s wing. It is, however, a structure known as the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula, which is located near the center of the even larger Chamaeleon I dark cloud, one of the nearest star-forming regions in our Milky Way.

Blue Origin launches crew of six space tourists to the edge of space

The crew of New Shepard NS-19. Pictured from left to right: Dylan Taylor, Lane Bess, Cameron Bess, Laura Shepard Churchley, Michael Strahan, and Evan Dick.

MIT researchers detail plans for private missions to search for life on Venus

Caption: A false-color image of the sulfurous Venusian cloud cover was produced using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki, the Japanese PLANET-C, and Venus Climate Orbiter, which highlights the convective turbulence of the planet's tropical regions, in contrast with the clear, smoother polar regions.

Mars helicopter taking a break due to communications issue with Perseverance

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is seen in a close-up taken by Mastcam-Z, a pair of zoomable cameras aboard the Perseverance rover. This image was taken on April 5, 2021, the 45th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Astronomers discover enormous planet in extreme, massive star system

This artist’s impression shows a close up of the planet b Centauri b, which orbits a binary system with mass at least six times that of the Sun. This is the most massive and hottest planet-hosting star system found to date. The planet is ten times as massive as Jupiter and orbits the two-star system at 100 times the distance Jupiter orbits the Sun.

NASA launches Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer to study the X-ray universe

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft onboard from Launch Complex 39A, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The IXPE spacecraft is the first satellite dedicated to measuring the polarization of X-rays from a variety of cosmic sources, such as black holes and neutron stars. Launch occurred at 1 a.m. EST.

Hubble Space Telescope restored and active following synchronization issue

The Hubble Space Telescope floats above Earth.

How to watch Blue Origin’s third space tourism flight on Saturday

New Shepard lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas for the NS-16 mission on July 20, 2021.

Check out the science heading to the ISS on the next SpaceX Crew Dragon flight

An astronaut's socks.

NASA launches new tech to better track near-Earth asteroids

Diagram showing the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous objects as calculated by JPL’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Highlighted is the orbit of the double asteroid Didymos, the target of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect

How to watch two space tourists launch to the space station

The crew heading to the space station.

Space tourist reveals ‘unusual training’ for this week’s mission to ISS

Yusaku Maezawa ahead of his trip to the space station.

NASA’s skywatching tips for December include a comet called Leonard

how to photograph perseid meteor shower streak in the night sky

Chinese rover spots weird cube-shaped feature on the far side of the moon

A strange cube-shaped feature spotted on the moon by China's Yutu-2 rover.

Hubble Space Telescope captures a sparkling spiral galaxy

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy Mrk (Markarian) 1337, which is roughly 120 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo. Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 snapped Mrk 1337 at a wide range of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared wavelengths, producing this richly detailed image. Mrk 1337 is a weakly barred spiral galaxy, which as the name suggests means that the spiral arms radiate from a central bar of gas and stars. Bars occur in roughly half of spiral galaxies, including our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

Closest pair of supermassive black holes is merging into one mega black hole

Just as people at a busy crossroad may accidentally bump into each other, so too can galaxies in the Universe! But in this case, the outcome is more dramatic than a small nudge. When two galaxies clash, they merge into each other, giving birth to a new, bigger one. One example is the NGC 7727 galaxy, shown in this image from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile.

Astronauts on the ISS pick a second peck of chili peppers

The four pepper plants that grew for 137 days aboard the International Space Station are pictured shortly before the second and final harvest for the Plant Habitat-04 experiment.

How to watch NASA’s Laser Communications launch early on Monday

Illustration of NASA's Laser Communications Relay Demonstration communicating over laser links.

Hubble inches back to health with 3 out of 4 instruments now running

The Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode once again after an instrument issue.

A year lasts just 8 hours on tiny, hellish planet bombarded by radiation

Artist im­pres­sion of Plan­et GJ 367

See a stunning view of today’s solar eclipse as captured from Antarctica

A Total Solar Eclipse Over Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 2017

NASA picks 3 companies to design private space stations

An illustration of the low-Earth orbit space station planned by Northrop Grumman.

Watch NASA’s video clips showing Thursday’s spacewalk

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NASA weighs risk as junk from an old rocket heads toward space station

The International Space Station.

Curiosity’s new selfie a reminder that the plucky rover is still busy on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.

How to watch NASA’s spacewalk at the ISS on Thursday

A NASA spacewalk

NASA shares new photos of ISS shot from SpaceX Crew Dragon

The International Space Station.

Watch NASA’s animation previewing Tuesday’s spacewalk

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Recently returned astronaut shares stunning photos of Earth

An African landscape as seen from the space station.

NASA astronauts enjoy Thanksgiving holiday at 17,000 mph

Astronauts on the space station.

How NASA’s amazing Super Guppy is helping the Artemis moon missions

NASA's Super Guppy aircraft.

Virgin Galactic reveals the winner of free trip to space

Virgin Galactic's space plane heading to the edge of space.

NASA’s DART spacecraft is on its way to crash into an asteroid

SpaceX launches NASA's DART spacecraft.

Blue Origin’s next suborbital spaceflight includes two special guests

New Shepard lifts off from Launch Site One in West Texas for the NS-16 mission on July 20, 2021.

SpaceX apologizes to customers for Starlink shipping delays

A Starlink dish.

How to watch NASA launch its DART anti-asteroid spacecraft tonight

Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

Check out this eerie Mars sunset captured by NASA’s Perseverance rover

A sunset on Mars.

James Webb Space Telescope suffers another launch delay

James Webb Space Telescope

Hubble captures an image of the stunning star-forming Prawn Nebula

The Prawn Nebula is a massive stellar nursery located in the constellation Scorpius, about 6,000 light years from Earth. Though the nebula stretches 250 light-years and covers a space four times the size of the full moon, it emits light primarily in wavelengths the human eye cannot detect, making it extremely faint to earthbound viewers. Hubble’s gaze, however, shows a small section of the nebula here in both visible and invisible infrared light, capturing dazzling detail of the nebula’s structure, including bright areas of glowing gas.

Solar Orbiter to perform its riskiest flyby before heading to the sun

Artist's impression of ESA's Solar Orbiter

Hellishly hot planet orbits so close to its star that a year lasts a few days

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Curiosity investigates how to keep Mars explorers safe from radiation

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, to take this selfie at the “Quela” drilling location in the “Murray Buttes” area on lower Mount Sharp between Sept. 17 and 18, 2016.

Go on a ‘Grand Tour’ of the outer solar system with these Hubble images

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has completed its annual grand tour of the outer Solar System for 2021. This is the realm of the giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — extending as far as 30 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. Unlike the rocky terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars that huddle close to the Sun’s warmth, these far-flung worlds are mostly composed of chilly gaseous soups of hydrogen, helium, ammonia, and methane around a packed, intensely hot, compact core. Note: The planets are not shown to scale in this image.

Rocket startup Astra makes it to orbit on 4th attempt

The fourth launch by rocket startup Astra on Saturday, November 20 succeeded in making it to orbit for the first time.

Why NASA is dropping three probes through Earth’s atmosphere today

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter pictured arriving at the International Space Station on Aug. 12, 2021. Cygnus will depart from the space station on Nov. 20, 2021.

Hubble engineers have a plan to get instruments running again following error

The Hubble Space Telescope is currently in safe mode once again after an instrument issue.
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