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Valles Marineris, the grand canyon of Mars, slices its way across this view of the Red Planet made with the Viking Orbiter 1. Credit: NASA

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System, Space Exploration

NASA seeks faster, cheaper options to return Mars samples to Earth

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Traveling on a different trajectory, its twin, Voyager 2, entered interstellar space in 2018. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Space Exploration

Voyager 1 is sending binary gibberish to Earth from 15.1 billion miles away

New moons of Uranus and Neptune discovered

A composite showing 19 JWST photos of spiral galaxies.

Galaxies, Science

See the 19 latest awe-inspiring spiral galaxy images from the JWST

JWST NIRCam image of Cas A supernova remnant

The newest infrared image of Cas A offers a fresh view — and new details

Dinkinesh and its contact binary satellites seen just 6 minutes after Lucy came in closest contact with the asteroids. Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

Surprise! NASA’s Lucy mission uncovered an asteroid moon that is actually two in one

A galactic collision of two galaxies which began more than 300 million years ago, NGC 520 is actually made up of two disk galaxies which will eventually merge together to form one larger, more massive system. NGC 520 was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 and is one of the largest and brightest galaxies in the Siena Galaxy Atlas.

Siena Galaxy Atlas helps categorize nearby galaxies

Hubble captures the glittering gold of Terzan 12

Space Exploration

India makes history with its first Moon landing

Galaxies, Stars

JWST takes a peek at the most distant known star

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

30 interesting images from Apollo 11

Great balls of fire burst forth in JWST image