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A sample location from the Sampling Quadrangle Assemblages Research Experiment (SQuARE), Square 03 in the starboard Maintenance Work Area of the International Space Station. An open crew berth is visible at right. The yellow dotted line indicates the boundaries of the sample area.

Human Spaceflight

Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on International Space Station

Telescopes and Equipment

DwarfLab’s new tiny smart scope packs a punch

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

No return date yet for Starliner astronauts on ISS

Elon Musk

Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Opinion: SpaceX’s Elon Musk endorsed Donald Trump for president – what this could mean for U.S. space policy

MESSENGER spacecraft at Mercury

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

How the MESSENGER mission transformed our understanding of Mercury

August 14, 2024, 5 AM, looking east

Observing, Planets, Upcoming Events

How to see tomorrow’s conjunction of Mars and Jupiter

Saturn’s moon Mimas, floating above the planet’s rings, might conceal a liquid ocean beneath its surface.

Saturn’s moon Mimas may hide a surprisingly young ocean

The constellation Orion the Hunter hosts two of the 10 brightest stars in the sky, Betelgeuse and Rigel. At magnitude 0.5 and 0.2, respectively, Betelgeuse (orange star at upper left) and Rigel (blue-white star at lower right) stand in stark contrast to many of the surrounding stars.

Why do astronomers measure stars in magnitudes?

Adolf Schaller

Legendary space artist Adolf Schaller dies at 68

NGC 2623 is a great example of what a pair of interacting galaxies looks like, 260 million light-years distant. Galaxies need mergers or other cosmic events to perturb different regions and trigger star formation and galaxy evolution.

Survivors from the Milky Way’s birth

Perseid meteors

Observing, Upcoming Events

How to watch the Perseids, 2024’s best meteor shower

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is the nearest major galaxy, and spans a width equivalent to more than six Full Moons.

Deep-Sky Objects

How to grasp the scale of the cosmos from your backyard