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Astronaut spots Mount Vesuvius from space | Space photo of the day for June 8, 2026
"From orbit, volcanoes are some of the most beautiful natural sights."
Trouble near the Milky Way: The Large Magellanic Cloud is ripping its smaller neighbor galaxy apart
The Magellanic Clouds are a pair of dwarf galaxies passing the Milky Way probably for the first time, but as they move they have been interacting with each other for billions of years.
Scientists find wind blowing from our Milky Way's black hole after half-century search: 'There it is'
After searching for 50 years, astronomers have finally discovered powerful winds blowing from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is blasting out a bunch of methane. Here's why that's weird
The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from comets from our solar system.
Glittering star cluster image reveals missing patch of stars: 'We were not looking for the gap, but we found it'
Euclid space telescope observations of ancient globular cluster NGC 6397 reveal a subtle gap in brightness distribution of red dwarf stars.
Most exoplanets might be 'soot factories,' scientists say: 'Like you have a natural diesel engine'
A chemical engineer noticed that the spectra of the hazy atmosphere of mini-Neptune planets looked like the soot produced by combustion engines.
A rainbow patchwork quilt shows agriculture from space | Space photo of the day for June 4, 2026
A rainbow blanket of patchwork colors sprawls across South Africa in this new composite image created using data from NASA's latest Earth-observing mission.
Meteorite found in Sahara desert may be 1st evidence of lost solar system world
A rare meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert contains evidence of a long-lost moon-size world that existed just a few million years after the solar system formed.
Black holes could 'leak' long enough to become white holes that weigh no more than a flea's egg
New research suggests primordial black holes born during the Big Bang could live much longer than previously estimated — long enough to become energy-spewing white holes.
'The mirror passed with flying colors': NASA just took its last look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope before launch
NASA engineers completed their final inspection of the Roman telescope's primary mirror and are now preparing to ship the telescope to its Florida launch site.