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an image of uranus taken using the keck observatory. The planet appears to glow blue against the darkness, with thin, gossamer rings wrapped vertically around its middle

Astronomers Think They Know The Reason For Uranus's Kooky Off-Kilter Axis Space20 hours ago

Astronomers Witness Light Delayed by Almost 7 Years as It's Warped by a Galaxy Cluster Space20 hours ago

an artist's impression of a five-planet system, as though peering back towards the star from orbit around the outermost world. that world looms blue and large in the foreground, with the orange star glimmering in the distance, four other dramatically lit planets arrayed around it

2 Incredibly Rare Exoplanets Could Give Us Insights About a Planet Close to Home Space2 days ago

a visualization of the data mapped onto an image of jupiter. At the auroral oval, the hottest temperature is indicated by a white patch, while a pale white-and-yellow line is seen moving away, down towards the jovian equator

A Planet-Sized Heatwave Has Been Found in Jupiter's Atmosphere Space3 days ago

Jupiter's moon Europa close up

We Just Got Our Closest View of Europa in 20 Years, And We Can't Stop Staring Space4 days ago

A blue burst of light on the left and red-orange burst of light on the right.

Hubble And Webb Pics Reveal DART Impact Was Even Bigger Than Expected Space4 days ago

The Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around Earth.

Happy Days: NASA And SpaceX Exploring The Possibility of Extending Hubble's Lifespan Space4 days ago

an arrow pointing to a zoomed image of the Sparkler galaxy, smeared and shimmering with dots of light around it

These Are The Most Distant Star Clusters Ever Seen, And We Nearly Missed Them Space4 days ago

against a gleaming white back-light, tiny balls of glass glisten in a range of colors. most of them are dark, or black, but golden, red and clear beads catch the eye

Glass Beads Reveal That Lunar Impacts Echo a History of Catastrophes Here on Earth Space5 days ago

gleaming like a bright pearl, the asteroid didymos shines in the darkness of space. Next to it, a tangled web of dusty filaments erupt from its moon, dimorphos, in the wake of a collision with the spacecraft

Stunning New Pics Capture The Incredible Moment a Spacecraft Struck an Asteroid Space6 days ago

Shimmering 'Lakes' Under The South Pole of Mars Might Be Something Else Entirely Space6 days ago

Final images taken by DART

Behold, The Epic Last Images Taken by NASA's Asteroid Redirection Test Spacecraft Space7 days ago

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