News From Space
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft-lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon, Titan. Taking advantage of Titan’s...
This image was taken by the left Navcam on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on June 18, 2019, the 2440th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. It shows part of...
Scientists have obtained the first image of a black hole, using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. The image shows a bright...
NEEMO 23 crew members ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins test the second version of an ESA’s Lunar Evacuation System...
In a laboratory simulating temperature, pressure, and electron radiation conditions on Jupiter’s moon Europa at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
This image of InSight’s seismometer was taken on the 110th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The seismometer is called Seismic Experiment for Interior...
This artist’s illustration shows the theoretical internal structure of the exoplanet Gliese 3470 b. At 12.6 Earth masses, the planet is more massive...
Example data captured by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument aboard GOES-16, an Earth-monitoring satellite operated by NOAA and NASA. This...
SOFIA took this image of comet 46P/Wirtanen on Dec. 16 and 17, 2018. Credit: NASA/SOFIA. The mystery of why Earth has so much water, allowing our “blue...
Images of four CubeSats being deployed from the Kibo module on the International Space Station. Left: Uguisu (Kyutech, Japan), Raavana-1 (ACCIMT, Sri Lanka...
A false-color image mosaic shows Daphnis, one of Saturn’s ring-embedded moons, and the waves it kicks up in the Keeler gap. Images collected by Cassini’s...