Ancient volcanic ash seen blowing across Mars in new spacecraft images

New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet.

James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: ‘The structures we’re seeing now are breathtaking’

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first detailed images of planetary nebula Tc 1, revealing new details of what happens after a sun-like star dies.

Interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS formed in a world much colder than the solar system

“Each interstellar comet brings a little bit of its history, its fossils, from elsewhere.”

NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers a weird system of exoplanets unlike anything seen before

“Most planetary systems appear as ‘peas in a pod.’ This is not the case in the TOI-201 system.”

Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot | Space photo of the day for April 23, 2026

Hubble revisits the Trifid Nebula in a spectacular image, revealing it’s expansive splendor.

Japan’s audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad

The complex MMX mission aims to shed light on the origins of Mars’ two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, bringing Phobos material back to Earth in 2031.

NASA aims September launch for Roman space telescope and it’s going to be a huge shift

NASA is aiming for an early September 2026 launch of the Roman Space Telescope, a powerful new observatory that could transform astronomy with massive infrared sky surveys, huge data returns, and faster follow-up discoveries.

Happy Earth Day! Celebrate with these amazing photos of our planet from space, from Apollo 8 to Artemis 2

This Earth Day, we reflect on our home planet and look at Earth from space through history.

Celebrate Earth Day with this Artemis 2 shot | Space photo of the day for April 22, 2026

Celebrating Earth Day with an image of Earth captured by NASA’s Artemis 2 mission around the moon.

Mysterious rings around Uranus point to hidden moons orbiting the ice giant

The two most puzzling rings around Uranus are gradually giving up their secrets, only to deepen the mystery of the Uranian system.