made history as NASA’s first spacecraft to journey between two celestial bodies. Ceres' south polar region is largely shadowed and, therefore, appears dark, and it is currently not visible. NGC ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope ... An ultraviolet image of the planetary nebula NGC 7293, aka the Helix Nebula. It is the nearest example of what happens to a star, like ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning ... The study of galaxies like NGC 5548 and peculiar galaxies help understand galaxy evolution and dark matter. Black holes have always been ...

Cosmic sparkle: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the globular cluster NGC 2298, a sparkling collection of thousands of stars held together by their mutual gravitational attraction.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of a vibrant spiral galaxy called NGC 5042 resides about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra (the water snake). The galaxy ...

In the Small Magellanic Cloud, 210,000 light-years away, NGC 346 is a dynamic star-forming ... stellar birth in vibrant detail. Image Credit: NASA/SOFIA/De Buizer/Radomski/Lim; NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Four astronauts launched on Friday en route to the International Space Station. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 7:03 p.m. Eastern time from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This is ...

A star-forming region near the core of the Milky Way, featuring a cluster of protostars and a previously unseen region of ionized hydrogen gas A dwarf irregular galaxy bursting with star formation ...

NASA told its staff Monday that the space agency will start cutting its ranks − including the office of its chief scientist − as part of a "broader governmentwide restructuring effort.

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