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A gray spacecraft is seen floating above the ocean on Earth

Crewed Russian spacecraft meets up with ISS | Space photo of the day for Dec. 17, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The Soyuz launched on Nov. 27, 2025 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

International Space Station
An image of Earth from space, showing Ethiopia and the Middle East covered with brown and gray streaks of ash

Satellite watches volcano spew ash over Middle East | Space photo of the day for Dec. 16, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The ash plume disrupted flights as far away as India.

Satellites
A man wearing a red hoodie and tan pants points to a nearby drone hovering over rippling sand dunes

NASA tests drones in Death Valley | Space photo of the day for Dec. 15, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

To develop more robust next-generation aerial explorers, NASA's Mars Exploration program is turning to drones.

Technology
The Milky Way glows orange and yellow amidst the stars in the night sky, with a streak of white at the right side of the image where comet Lemmon moves across with a domed observatory and mountains silhouetted at the bottom

Comet Lemmon and Milky Way spotted over Hawaii | Space photo of the day for Dec. 12, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

Hawaiian stargazers got a particularly special treat recently.

Stargazing
A glowing spiral galaxy with pink and purple and yellow gas swirls around small dots of young stars in space

Hubble sees 'Lost Galaxy' in the Virgo constellation | Space photo of the day for Dec. 11, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

This stunning image is full of young star clusters.

Hubble Space Telescope
A drone shot showing a metal domed building against a desert peak in Chile

Extremely Large Telescope under construction | Space photo of the day for Dec. 10, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

Once completed, this telescope will help usher in a new era of astronomy.

Astronomy
A large solar array is seen at the bottom of this image floating in space as the top half of the image shows Earth with a green sheen over its surface

ISS astronauts watch Earth's atmosphere glow green | Space photo of the day for Dec. 8, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

The image shows a good example of the phenomenon called airglow.

International Space Station
The half dome of a glowing sunset is seen against a black sky with the silhouette of an airplane in the front and a green shape above it.

A green flash at sunset | Space photo of the day for Dec. 8, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

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

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Stargazing
A dark circular eye peers out of a lighter landscape of the Saharan Desert

Seeing a bull's-eye in the desert | Space photo of the day for Dec. 5, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

Is this really a crater in the Saharan Desert?

Earth
Two images side by side, one showing the metal cylinders and wires that make up a large boxy satellite and the other being a black and white x-ray image of the satellite showing its hollow features

See the metal guts of a satellite in this wild X-ray view | Space photo of the day for Dec. 4, 2025

By Kenna Hughes-Castleberry published

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

Satellites
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