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Hubble trouble: Can you handle the cosmic challenge?

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

This quiz is your chance to dive into the wonders of Hubble's legacy

Hubble Space Telescope
A large mountain is seen with a glowing windy road leading up it to two buildings at the top, with the rest of the rocky desert landscape all around and red streaks in the sky above.

Telescopes scan the skies over the Atacama Desert | Space photo of the day for Sept. 30, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

A new image from NOIRLab shows telescopes on two Chilean peaks in the Atacama Desert.

Astronomy
Three grayscale pictures of the same spiral galaxy, with the image quality and fuzziness getting better as you move from left to right.

The Rubin Observatory's upcoming images may stack up to space telescope ones. Here's how

By Keith Cooper published

The algorithm has already been tested on images from the Subaru telescope and will now be used on the Vera C. Rubin Observatory once science results begin to flood in.

Astronomy
A series of glass domes stand next to other glass buildings on an arid compound with the hot desert sun beating down

Biosphere 2's latest mission: Learning how life first emerged on Earth – and how to make barren worlds habitable

By Ghiwa Makke, Scott Saleska, Chris Impey published

Despite being just outside Tucson, Arizona, Biosphere 2 looks almost like a colony on another planet.

Earth
Researcher Fatima Li-Hau collects samples in a hot spring in Japan.

Secrets of ancient life on Earth may live in Japan's hot springs

By Stefanie Waldek published

Ancient iron-metabolizing microbes may have turned toxic oxygen into an energy source.

Earth
A ring of glowing gas and stars creates a brilliant galaxy seen in the darkness of space.

Hubble Telescope finds galaxy with puzzling shape | Space photo of the day for Sept. 29, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The Hubble Space Telescope saw a galaxy that has features of both elliptical and spiral galaxies, puzzling experts.

Hubble Space Telescope
A view of the top of Venus

Mysterious crown-like features on Venus may finally have an explanation

By Victoria Corless published

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

Venus
The bright star V 372 Orionis and its companion are captured in this new Hubble image, surrounded by large cross-shaped diffraction spikes. Small red stars with shorter diffraction spikes are scattered around them, against a background of red and blue gas clouds.

To the stars: a stellar trivia quiz

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

This quiz will take you on a journey through the life cycle of stars, their classification, and the incredible processes that power them.

Stars
A reddish brownish planet sits in the darkness of space

This dwarf planet has gas: Makemake's methane surprises scientists

By Andrew Jones published

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected methane gas on the dwarf planet Makemake, indicating that the distant body is a dynamic icy world.

Dwarf Planets
people in blue jumpsuits smile and wave.

After almost 20 years helping to operate rovers on Mars, NASA geologist and astronaut candidate Lauren Edgar says stepping foot on the Red Planet 'would be a dream'

By Josh Dinner published

Edgar once designed science experiments for astronauts to perform. Now she'll be the astronaut performing them.

Mars
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