This artist’s illustration shows the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn. Cassini made 22 orbits that swooped between the rings and the planet before ending its 13-year tour of the ringed planet on Sept. 15, 2017, with a final plunge into Saturn. Cassini spacecraft shared the wonders of […]
On July 4, 2016, our Juno spacecraft arrived at Jupiter on a mission to peer through the gas giant planet’s dense clouds and answer questions about the origins of our solar system. Since its arrival, Juno has provided scientists with a treasure trove of data about the planet’s origins, interior stru
This uniform in the center of this image belonged to one of the unsung heroes of the Space Shuttle Program – Travis Thompson, former Closeout Crew Lead. The closeout crew was responsible for assisting the astronauts to strap into the shuttle’s crew module and take care of any other last-minute
The SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship departs the International Space Station after it undocked from the Harmony module’s space-facing international docking adapter on July 8, 2021. The central portion of the orbiting lab’s truss structure and a pair of antennas dominate the right foregr
Two enormous galaxies capture your attention in this spectacular image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope using the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The galaxy on the left is a lenticular galaxy, named 2MASX J03193743+4137580. The side-on spiral galaxy on the right is more simply named UGC 26
Our birthday wishes for Ringo Starr’s 81st birthday are almost boundless, extending all the way beyond Mars to our solar system’s asteroid belt, home to the asteroid that bears his name, 4150 Starr. Learn more about the planetary body that bears his name. Image Credit: NASA 我们对林戈·斯塔尔（Rin
Planet TOI-1231 b orbits a red dwarf star some 90 light-years away from Earth and is oddly reminiscent of our own Neptune – that is, a gaseous world with a potentially rich atmosphere, ripe for study. The planet is more than 3 ½ times as big around as Earth and warm by Earthly standards at 134 degr
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts the open star cluster NGC 330, which lies around 180,000 light-years away inside the Small Magellanic Cloud. The cluster – which is in the constellation Tucana (the Toucan) – contains a multitude of stars, many of which are scattered
This 2004 image was produced by combining a dozen observations from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory made of a 130 light-year region in the center of the Milky Way. The colors represent low (red), medium (green) and high (blue) energy X-rays. Thanks to Chandra’s unique resolving power, astronomer
Today(Editor’s Note: June 30) is International Asteroid Day! Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. The current known asteroid count is more than one million! Most of this ancient space r
