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This powerful side-by-side comparison shows just how bright a star explosion is.

As part of its exploration of Mars's boxwork landscape, Curiosity found itself in a fork-in-the-road

This is part of a NASA-supported project hoping to fabricate "device-ready" wafers from space-grown crystals.

NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts are gearing up for their planned 2026 moon launch by photographing an inflatable version of Earth's nearest neighbor.

Like birds returning to their nests, these feather-like grid fins help steer rockets back down through the atmosphere toward their landing zones.

The Milky Way galaxy glows alongside the zodiacal light over the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.

SpaceX's Crew-11 mission delivered four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA, aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft.

The Chinese lunar lander Lanyue recently passed a test in a simulated moon-like environment.

The Tarantula nebula was recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, where the Scylla program helped create the colored image of this star-forming area.

This long-exposure image from the International Space Station shows the growing tension between celestial beauty and human expansion into space.