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Spacewalker Woody Hoburg rides the Canadarm2 robotic arm while maneuvering a roll-out solar array toward the International Space Station's truss...

Jupiter's moons circle Jupiter. The featured video depicts Europa and Io, two of Jupiter's largest moons, crossing in front of...

What’s that near the Moon? It’s the International Space Station (ISS). Although the ISS may appear to be physically near...

Here are all the visible colors of the Sun, produced by passing the Sun's light through a prism-like device. The...

This month, bright Mars and brilliant Venus are the prominent celestial beacons in planet Earth's western skies after sunset. Wandering...

The jellyfish galaxy JO206 trails across this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2023/hubble-observes-a-cosmic-sea-creature

This deep field mosaicked image presents a stunning view of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 from the James Webb Space Telescope's...

The last rays of an orbital sunset illuminate the cloud tops above the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan,...

Like an illustration in a galactic Just So Story, the Elephant's Trunk Nebula winds through the emission region and young...

On June 5, 2023, Crew-5 astronauts Josh Cassada (left) and Nicole A. Mann (second from left) of NASA, and Japan...

Most galaxies don't have any rings of stars and gas -- why does M94 have two? First, spiral galaxy M94...

This colorful zinnia, shown in an image from Jan. 22, 2016, grew aboard the International Space Station as part of...

It’s the end of a world as we know it. Specifically, the Sun-like star ZTF SLRN-2020 was seen eating one...

What's happening at the center of the Trifid Nebula? Three prominent dust lanes that give the Trifid its name all...

Wouldn't it be fun to color in the universe? If you think so, please accept this famous astronomical illustration as...

A darkened and mysterious north polar region known to some as Mordor Macula caps this premier high-resolution view. The portrait...

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón reads her poem for the Europa Clipper mission during an event with NASA, Thursday, June...

Massive stars in our Milky Way Galaxy live spectacular lives. Collapsing from vast cosmic clouds, their nuclear furnaces ignite and...