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NASA's SkyFall Mars helicopters will wear tiny capes

Pluto’s Famous Glacial Heart Has Been Secretly Leaking Liquid Nitrogen

NASA's bid to save a prized space telescope takes an alarming turn

NASA's PUNCH Mission Can Now Accurately Predict When Solar Storms Will Hit Earth

Rare ultra-magnetic star may be key to solving 90-year old quantum cold case

'Little red dots' may be pulsating monster stars that created early-universe black holes

Voyager 2 cheats the power budget for another year

Astronomers catch massive star's death from the first explosive moment

What NASA learned by pointing an asteroid probe at Mars

Jupiter's moon Europa may have signs of life in its buried ocean

August’s total solar eclipse will sweep over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

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Mark your calendars: Aug. 12 could be the greatest single day and night for skywatching for years

Neptune's moon system is bizarre. JWST data helps explain why

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Satellites spy penguin poop on Danger Islands photo of the day for July 30, 2026

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Little red dots may mark temporary black hole phase

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Northern Lights Forecast: 10 States May See Aurora Thursday Night

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The France and Spain wildfires’ path of destruction in maps, satellite images and photos

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Curiosity Mars rover discovers field of honeycomb textures

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Titan has four seasons much like Earth's, but there is one very strange catch to them: because Saturn takes about 29 years to circle the Sun, a single season on Titan drags on for roughly seven Earth years

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A NASA rover just discovered something strange on Mars that scientists can’t explain

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Sargassum, the smelly nemesis of beach vacations, has become a self-sustaining disaster that will keep coming back

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SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit in wake of Starship test flight (video)

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NASA fuels its next-gen Roman Space Telescope for August launch

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Private mission to rescue NASA’s aging telescope runs into its own trouble

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The robot NASA hired to lift a orbital telescope is tumbling out of control

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Curiosity Mars rover inspects cracked wheel photo of the day for July 27, 2026

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Hubble shows star formation in Andromeda galaxy is winding down

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Astronomers identify one of the universe's rarest black hole events

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Ancient sandstorm leaves behind wreckage on Mars photo of the day for July 20, 2026

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Did Viking 1 find life on Mars 50 years ago? Here's why the debate continues

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NASA's Psyche mission delivers Mars flyby data, time-lapse video

NASA's Psyche mission has released new imagery, time-lapse video, and sensor data captured during its recent flyby of Mars.

Are we underestimating the threat of solar storms? A 'once-in-a-thousand-year' disaster is worth considering, scientists say

Scientists warn of underestimated threat from solar storms

NASA's curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycomb pattern on Mars, leaving scientists puzzled over its or

NASA's Perseverance rover has identified a unique honeycomb geological pattern and signs of an ancient, massive asteroid impact on the Martian surface.

It’s a Treasure to Science. Too Bad It Came Through Their Roof.

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Faint new planet is revealed around a young star after a decade in hiding

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Hubble discovers first of star cluster's missing black holes

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A quest for closure: In search of the missing after Venezuela’s earthquakes

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China, Taiwan brace for Typhoon Bavi, possibly the most powerful storm in years

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NASA's New Horizons probe just woke up from hibernation 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto. What's it doing out there?

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, due to launch in August 2026, is expected to discover around 100,000 exoplanets in a single mission — more than every telescope in the history of astronomy combined

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope set to launch in August 2026

Katalyst's satellite rescue mission is now in pursuit of NASA's Swift

James Webb telescope's largest-ever map of the universe unmasks hidden corners

James Webb telescope reveals universe's hidden corners in largest-ever map

Euclid telescope spots oldest quasars ever discovered, adding to "perplexing" space mystery

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian Honeycomb”

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

NASA's TESS mission has identified a planetary system using a new method, potentially unlocking thousands of hidden exoplanets from existing data.

Night sky July 2026

XMM-Newton and Chandra help revise distance to Milky Way's outer spiral arms

Astronomers revise distance to Milky Way's outer spiral arms using XMM-Newton and Chandra

Aerosols and hydrocarbons in the atmosphere of a white dwarf planet

Stunning new NASA space telescope images reveal the universe in red, white and blue for America 250

Solar radiation storm warning issued and canceled after M5.8 solar flare, major X1.1 flare erupts at 20:50 UTC

A surge in solar activity, including a major X1.1 flare, has triggered radio blackouts and warnings of an impending G3-class magnetic storm.

NASA Aims to Catch a Falling Space Telescope and Push It Back Up

NASA races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission

NASA launches daring rescue mission to save Swift space telescope from falling to Earth

NASA is paying $30 million for a 1st-of-its-kind rescue mission to the aging Swift telescope before it falls from space. Is it worth it?

Mars Perseverance Rover Completes a Marathon on Mars to Cap Off Extraordinary 5 Years

NASA's Perseverance Rover marks 5 years on Mars by completing a marathon distance

Twin ‘super-puff’ planets offer clues to cosmic evolution

Astronomers have discovered a pair of rare 'super-puff' planets that match the size of Jupiter but are lighter than cotton candy.

In 1995, astronomers aimed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch of sky that looked almost empty — a dark spot near the Big Dipper no wider than a pinhead held at arm’s length. After 10 days of exposures, the darkness resolved into roughly 3,000 gala

New coverage revisits the Hubble Space Telescope's deep field imaging and its ability to reveal thousands of distant galaxies in previously dark patches of sky.

NASA’s Webb Pinpoints Millions of Stars Within Cigar Galaxy

Hubble Space Telescope images galaxy scientists thought was impossible to find

A space telescope that has spent 22 years detecting the most powerful explosions in the universe is now falling toward Earth, and a startup in Arizona built its rescue craft in seven months flat — a schedule Science described as almost unheard of for a NA

NASA is launching a first-of-its-kind rescue mission to save a space telescope that has spent 22 years detecting the universe's most powerful explosions.