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Ice melts in the springtime on Mars | Space photo of the day for April 24, 2026
By Chelsea Gohd published
Springtime has arrived at the Red Planet's Chasma Boreale, as this photo by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows.

Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula
By Keith Cooper published
This latest image from Hubble forms just one of more than 1.7 million observations that the space telescope has made over the past 36 years since it launched on April 24, 1990.

Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth
By Daisy Dobrijevic published
The twin eruptions briefly disrupted radio signals across the dayside of Earth.

What will happen when our sun starts dying? These 'stellar archaeologists' may have found a clue
By Robert Lea published
Acting as stellar archaeologists, scientists have found fossilized magnetism on long-dead white dwarf stars, which may help to explain how stars evolve.

These 'interstellar glaciers' could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
NASA's SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming regions across the Milky Way.

Ancient volcanic ash seen blowing across Mars in new spacecraft images
By Keith Cooper published
New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet.

James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: 'The structures we're seeing now are breathtaking'
By Elizabeth Howell published
The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first detailed images of planetary nebula Tc 1, revealing new details of what happens after a sun-like star dies.

Interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS formed in a world much colder than the solar system
By Robert Lea published
"Each interstellar comet brings a little bit of its history, its fossils, from elsewhere."
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