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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

This year's Perseids will be slightly impacted by a 53% waxing Moon, but the Moon will set right as the Perseids begin to peak! This means that if you are in an area free from light pollution and ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. The path of totality is where observers will see the Moon completely cover the Sun. How much will daylight change ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. It’s not your imagination: Certain extreme events, like heat waves, are happening more often and becoming more ...

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 ...

Climate time machine interactiveIn this "Climate Time Machine," we show how some of the key indicators of climate change - such as temperature, sea ice extent and carbon dioxide concentrations - have ...