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Surprise asteroid flies by Earth at only 250 miles away (video)
An asteroid, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Sept. 30 after surprising astronomers.
NASA pilot suits up to scan the Earth | Space photo of the day for Oct 3. 2025
As NASA's ER-2 aircraft takes flight over the American Southwest, the GEMx mission is using high-altitude hyperspectral imaging to uncover Earth's hidden mineral resources
'The metal detector has gone off': Perseverance rover's find is a shiny new clue in the search for life on Mars
NASA's Perseverance rover has found minerals that could have powered life on Mars — or simply shaped the Red Planet's environment in fascinating ways.
JWST captures clearest-ever image of M87 galaxy's supermassive black hole jet
Astronomers using JWST have captured the sharpest infrared view yet of the supermassive black hole jet in M87, offering new insights into its structure and physics.
China's Tianwen 2 asteroid-sampling spacecraft snaps a selfie with Earth
China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft took a picture of itself, as well as the Earth, while en route to a mysterious asteroid that may tell us more about the moon's history.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will be eyed by Mars and Jupiter probes as it zooms past the sun this month
ESA is making use of spacecraft originally dedicated to its Mars and Jupiter missions to track comet 3I/ATLAS as it continues its journey through our solar system
Telescope sees binary star's beautiful rainbow spectra | Space photo of the day for Oct. 2, 2025
A new rainbow spectrum from the STELES instrument on Chile's SOAR Telescope captures Eta Carinae in unprecedented detail.
Exoplanet without a sun found gobbling up 6 billion tons of gas and dust per second
"This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object."
