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This image of an asteroid that is at least 3,600 feet (1,100 meters) long was taken on Dec. 17, 2015, by scientists...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers lift part of the Huygens probe aft cover assembly in the Payload Hazardous...
Dornier Satelliten Systeme (DSS) workers place the back cover of the Huygens probe under its front heat shield in...
This composite image contains data from Chandra (purple) that provides evidence for the survival of a companion star...
This composite image contains data from Chandra (purple) that provides evidence for the survival of a companion star...
This mosaic shows NASA's radar observations in one-minute increments of asteroid 2024 MK, a 500-foot-wide...
Most supermassive black holes in the universe are hiding, but NASA’s NuSTAR mission can find them by using...
On March 21, 2021, the large asteroid 2001 FO32 made a close approach with our planet, passing at a distance of...
This figure represents the 1,000th near-Earth asteroid (NEA) to be detected by planetary radar since 1968. Being...
NASA image relase December 13, 2011 Gamma-rays detected by Fermi's LAT show that the remnant of Tycho's supernova...
Release date: July 1, 2008 This image is a composite of visible (or optical), radio, and X-ray data of the full...
Preparing the space station for solar array upgrades, rolling out the spacecraft for our Artemis I mission, and the...
This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, includes data from NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic...
This new view of the historical supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, located 11,000 light-years away, was taken by NASA...
The Ghost of Mirach galaxy is shown in visible light on the left, and in ultraviolet as seen by NASA Galaxy...
The unique ultraviolet vision of NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer revealed, for the first time, dwarf galaxies forming...
This sky map shows the location of the star HD 219134 (circle), host to the nearest confirmed rocky planet found to...
Hidden behind a shroud of dust in the constellation Cygnus is a stellar nursery called DR21, which is giving birth...
This image composite shows two views of a puffy, dying star, or planetary nebula, known as NGC 1514. At left is a...
This new composite image of stellar cluster NGC 1333 combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink);...
NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer discovered an exceptionally long comet-like tail of material trailing behind Mira --...
This image highlights the hidden spiral arms blue that were discovered around the nearby galaxy NGC 4625 by the...
This visible-light view from from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope highlights the bright M17 nebula, as well as the...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope caught a glimpse of the Cepheus constellation, thirty thousand light-years away;...