The (Proto) Planet: WISPIT 2b The Discovery: Researchers have discovered a young protoplanet called WISPIT 2b embedded in a ring-shaped gap in a disk encircling a young star. While theorists have ...

NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the “Scotiafjellet” workspace on Aug. 31, 2025, using its onboard Left Navigation Camera (Navcam). The camera is located high on the rover's mast ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS Aug. 6, with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. The research team has been ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d intrigues astronomers looking for possibly habitable worlds beyond our solar system ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. August 11 & 12 – Venus-Jupiter Conjunction – The two brightest planets have a close meetup over several days, ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Different clouds types can have different effects on our weather and climate, which makes identifying cloud types ...

This animation demonstrates a simulation by the MAGE model of Earth’s magnetosphere being hit by a geospace storm in May 2024, the strongest in nearly 20 years. Storms like this are caused by solar ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. From the center of the solar system, rages a powerful wind. Sent by the Sun, this wind whips at speeds exceeding one ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. NASA’s newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe.

On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space.

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Last week, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover continued its journey down lower ‘Witch Hazel Hill’ on the Jezero crater rim. The ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The ice-giant planet Uranus, which travels around the Sun tipped on its side, is a weird and mysterious world. Now, ...