Category: Planetary Science
Hubble images celestial cigar’s smoldering heart
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the central region of spiral galaxy Messier 82. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. D. Vacca This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new…
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact site
Volunteers search for meterorites in February 2023 in Angiens, France. With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid traveled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere and sent…
New NASA mission to reveal Earth’s invisible ‘halo’
The first image of UV light from Earth’s outer atmosphere, the geocorona, taken from a telescope designed and built by George Carruthers. The telescope took the image while on the…
NASA’s Deep Space Communications demo exceeds project expectations
In this infrared photograph, the Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory at JPL’s Table Mountain Facility near Wrightwood, California, beams its eight-laser beacon to the Deep Space Optical Communications flight laser transceiver…
Northrop Grumman cargo ship reaches the International Space Station a day late after engine issue
This image provided by NASA shows Northrop Grumman’s newly arrived cargo capsule at the International Space Station on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. Credit: NASA via AP A supply ship arrived…
How NASA’s Roman mission will unveil our home galaxy using cosmic dust
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy’s less sparkly components—gas and dust strewn between stars, known…
