Kenna Hughes-Castleberry
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a freelance science journalist. Her beats include quantum technology, AI, animal intelligence, corvids, and cephalopods.
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The image shows a good example of the phenomenon called airglow.

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The supermoon shines brighter and bolder than usual—discover which dazzling lunar personality matches you.

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This rare phenomenon is also called the green rim and it actually happens at every sunset.

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Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines.

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Is this really a crater in the Saharan Desert?

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The EURECA spacecraft flew on the space shuttle Atlantis in 1992.

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The vantage point at Cerro Pachón, with its dark skies and high-altitude clarity, enhances the richness of the image.

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This year marks 30 years of SOHO observing our sun, an extraordinary milestone for a mission originally expected to last only about three years.

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Test your cosmic knowledge with this thrilling Apollo-themed space quiz—where lunar legends and NASA milestones collide!

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"These images are not just pretty."

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11,000 pounds of cargo recently arrived at the International Space Station.

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Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines.

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As NASA prepares for crewed Artemis missions, its astronauts are learning to use a new generation of spacesuits: the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit, designed by Axiom Space.

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A perfect Thanksgiving image of the day for all who celebrate.

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These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout the solar system.

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This quiz dives into satellites and explores what is orbiting Earth.

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Chilean astrophotographer Osvaldo Castillo captured this breathtaking view.

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This is not good news for the future of our planet.

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Test your space smarts with our weekly crossword challenge, crafted from Space.com's biggest headlines.

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Jake Korell’s debut novel 'The Second World' envisions a newly independent Mars shaped by real space-policy debates, near-future technology, and the very human absurdities we’ll bring with us when we leave Earth.

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The Orion crew module gets stacked onto the Space Launch System in preparation for the upcoming Artemis 2 mission in early 2026.

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It's not every day you see both a comet and an aurora from low Earth orbit.

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The Very Large Telescope's interferometer targeted four lasers toward the Tarantula Nebula to create an artificial star.
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