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Artist's concept of the Barnard's star system

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Astrophotography, Telescopes and Equipment

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Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

How Project Gemini changed spaceflight

Fram2 spacecraft descending for splashdown

Human Spaceflight

Fram2 astronauts splash down after historic polar spaceflight

Curiosity rover selfie on Mars

Alien Life, Solar System

Curiosity discovers largest organic molecules yet on Mars

Bumper V-2 rocket launch

Human Spaceflight

Megaroc: The British manned space program that almost was

Science, Space Exploration

STARMUS Launches the Stephen Hawking Medal Junior at The Kennedy Center

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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket lifts off

Space Exploration

FAA concludes Blue Origin, SpaceX January ‘mishap’ investigations

Space Exploration

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Earth as a planet

Science, Solar System

Solving the climate equation

Science, Solar System

How to build climate solutions: An interview with Tony Fadell

Science, Solar System

Why our climate future depends on Antarctica

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Solar System

How we study our planet

This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: The Winter Hexagon

Astrophotography

How to create great star trail images

Human Spaceflight

Boeing Starliner could fly again later this year, says NASA

Human Spaceflight

SpaceX’s Fram2 mission will aim for the poles

Space Exploration

German firm eyes Saturday for Europe’s first commercial orbital launch

Artist's impression of white dwarf-red dwarf binary system

This dead star is still sending us radio signals

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This artist’s conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young, star-rich galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have uncovered two of these early objects, dating back to about 13 billion years ago. The monstrous black holes are among the most distant known, and appear to be in the very earliest stages of formation, earlier than any observed so far. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

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Credit: Tim Doucette.

Observing

Learn about upcoming observing events such as eclipses, meteor showers, comets, conjunctions, and more.

This 2016 Curiosity rover selfie shows the vehicle at the “Okoruso” drilling site on Mount Sharp’s Naukluft Plateau. The Martian scene is a mosaic of images taken with the arm-mounted Mars Hands Lens Imager (MAHLI). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Space Exploration

Human and robotic missions are helping humanity explore our solar system and beyond.

Sky This Week

Uranus in true color, imaged by Voyager

The Sky This Week from April 4 to 11: Catch your last views of Uranus

Sky This Month

Venus at dawn

April 2025: What’s in the Southern Hemisphere sky this month?

Picture of the Day

The summer Milky Way returns

Gianni Tumino from Ragusa, Italy

Evening views of the Milky Way’s central regions return to the Northern Hemisphere, as seen in this shot taken from Punta Castellazzo on the island of Sicily, Italy. To image the sky, the imager used a Canon EOS Ra and 28mm lens at f/3.2 with a dual-band filter to capture sixty-six 40-second exposures at ISO 6400; a separate Canon EOS R was used to capture the landscape.

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