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 ...

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, ...

A mini-profile of citizen scientist Judy Schmidt, who works on astronomical image processing.

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 ...

This exoplanetary encyclopedia — continuously updated, with more than 6,000 entries — combines interactive 3D models and detailed data on all confirmed exoplanets. When you select a planet’s name, see ...

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Hubble Space Telescope astronomers, studying the northern hemisphere field from the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS), have measured the distance to the farthest galaxy ever seen. The ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. Light pollution has long troubled astronomers, who generally shy away from deep sky observing under full Moon skies.

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The story of how we understand planetary motion could not be told if it were not for the work of a German ...

Shackleton Crater is an impact crater that lies at the lunar South Pole. While peaks along the crater's rim are exposed to almost continual sunlight, the interior is perpetually in shadow. This is ...

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 ...