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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries the company's Dragon spacecraft with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission members aboard in this five-minute...

Spiral galaxy NGC 3169 looks to be unraveling like a ball of cosmic yarn. It lies some 70 million light-years...

Former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly snapped this photo of the Earth’s crescent, the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter (from top to...

Is star AE Aurigae on fire? No. Even though AE Aurigae is named the Flaming Star and the surrounding nebula...

Why is a thin crescent moon never seen far from a horizon? Because the only geometry that gives a thin...

What's causing that unusual ray of light extending from the horizon? Dust orbiting the Sun. At certain times of the...

What would make a moon look like a walnut? A strange ridge that circles Saturn's moon Iapetus's equator, visible near...

On February 22, a young Moon shared the western sky at sunset with bright planets Venus and Jupiter along the...

The sun rises on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at NASA’s Kennedy...

Planetary nebula Jones-Emberson 1 is the death shroud of a dying Sun-like star. It lies some 1,600 light-years from Earth...

Astronaut John Glenn enters the Mercury spacecraft, Friendship 7, prior to the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 (MA-6) on Feb. 20,...

Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries. Some 100 million light-years...

A blue halo glows around Pluto’s receding crescent in this parting image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July...

Our Sun is becoming a busy place. Only two years ago, the Sun was emerging from a solar minimum so...

As NASA celebrates National Engineers Week, NASA Glenn gets perspectives from materials research engineer Jamesa Stokes. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/glenn/image-feature/2023/nasa-celebrates-national-engineers-week-perspectives-from-jamesa-stokes

They are both falling. The water in Yosemite Falls, California, USA, is falling toward the Earth. Comet ZTF is falling...

There is nothing like this ball of stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. This is surprising because, at first glance,...

Is this really the famous Pleiades star cluster? Known for its iconic blue stars, the Pleiades is shown here in...