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NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) will be visible from the ground. Find out when you can see it on the NASA ...
As of Monday, Aug. 4, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. According to NASA's Daily Moon Observation, the moon will be 77% lit ...
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction and Meteor Mojo Venus and Jupiter shine together in a rare, close morning conjunction this August.
Organisations like NASA and NOAA keep an eye on the sun to forecast potential sources of danger. If a solar flare or Coronal ...
On Aug. 3, 2004, NASA launched the MESSENGER spacecraft on a historic first mission to orbit the planet Mercury. The ...
Discovered in July 2025, 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor traversing our solar system, following ...
To keep solar power stations from getting lazy, Sandia National Laboratories scientist John Sandusky is looking to give ...
NASA is plotting a new mission that could be the one to finally uncover alien life in the universe. Or, it may uncover a darker fact: that we humans are completely alone, on the unique oasis we ...
NASA may redirect its Juno spacecraft to study the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, sparking speculation about its potential artificial nature.
NASA says a total eclipse of the sun, one that will last more than six minutes and 23 seconds at its peak, will take place two years from now on Aug. 2, 2027. The solar eclipse’s length will be one of ...
The Tarantula Nebula glows with powerful stars and chaotic dust, captured in vivid detail by the Hubble Space Telescope. It’s a star factory outside our galaxy—raging with stellar winds and cosmic ...
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which operates Webb, recently released an image of a planetary nebula known as NGC 6072. The nebula is located roughly 3,300 light-years from Earth, in ...