NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover captured footage of a solar storm hitting the Martian surface, which created streaks on its camera. Mars is vulnerable to solar radiation.
NASA reveals why it’s so hard to spot alien life — even with Webb
NASA exoplanet scientists explain how the James Webb Space Telescope looks for hints of life, and why it’s so challenging to find this evidence.
Footage shows return of colossal sunspot that created Northern Lights
An astrophotographer used a telescope to capture a giant sunspot. This region was responsible for creating the geomagnetic storms that recently created historic Northern Lights on Earth.
New Webb telescope image isn’t just stunning. It shattered a record.
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to find the oldest-known galaxy ever found. It formed just 290 million years after the universe was created.
NASA reveals footage of astronauts training in desert for moon mission
NASA astronauts recently trained in a desert in Northern Arizona in preparation for the space agency’s Artemis 3 mission, which will land a crew on the lunar surface.
Scientists just found a really strange super-Earth
Astronomers used two powerful telescopes to find a rocky super-Earth orbiting extremely close to its host star. It’s called TOI-1798 c, and likely doesn’t have an atmosphere.
Spacecraft snaps eerie view of our galaxy’s ‘doppelganger’
The European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope captured detailed new views of distant objects, including the galaxy GC 6744, which astronomers think closely resembles our Milky way.
New James Webb Space Telescope photo truly boggles the mind
Scientists used the James Webb Space Telescope to capture a deep field view of space, including a view of two early galaxies and their black holes colliding.
Scientists find Earth-sized planet. It’s orbiting a fascinating star.
Astronomers discovered an exoplanet about the size of Earth that’s orbiting an ultra-cool red dwarf, a star that can live over 100 billion years.
NASA spacecraft spots dead robot on Mars surface
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter viewed the space agency’s retired InSight lander as it gradually collects dust in the Martian desert.