The image was captured on May 14 as the asteroid-bound spacecraft approaches Mars could be mistaken for an eclipse.
The Psyche spacecraft is bound for a metal-rich asteroid that it will examine up close starting in 2029. But first, it needs ...
Named Psyche like the asteroid it’s after, the robotic explorer will slingshot past the red planet at 12,333 mph (19,848 kph) ...
Psyche will travel quite close to Mars, coming within just 2,800 miles of the red planet's surface at its nearest point, according to NASA. Slingshotting past at about 12,333 miles per hour, the ...
New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...
The Whirlpool Galaxy sprawls across the cosmos in this striking new snapshot from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
In a recent paper in Nature, a team of scientists led by Kimihiko Nakajima, an astronomer at the Kanazawa University, Japan, ...
The excitement I felt for the return to our closest celestial neighbor after half a century was shared by many, but not ...
Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” ...
Spread the loveThe vast expanse of our universe has always captivated humanity’s imagination, and the Milky Way is no exception. With its glittering stars and captivating celestial phenomena, we are ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a striking new image of Messier 77, revealing glowing spiral arms, dense dust, ...