The stunning ‘Butterfly Nebula’ by Hubble space telescope 🦋

Crescent Earth | Crescent Mars

🚨 Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just blew up on the pad at Kennedy Space Center while attempting to Static Fire

Office views for astronauts during a spacewalk 248 miles above Earth 👨‍🚀

Meteor strikes Mayon Volcano as it’s erupting ☄️

China launched three astronauts to the Tiangong space station aboard Shenzhou-23, with one expected to stay for up to a year, marking one of its longest missions Source: Reuters

A full rotation of the planet Mars

🚨 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ahead of schedule and now launching as early as Sept. 2026 The new flagship observatory is designed to investigate dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets It also has a field of view 200x greater than Hubble!

🚨 New concept art for NASA’s Moon Base 🌕

🚨 Astronomers have just found 10,091 potential new exoplanets in NASA's TESS data Nearly double the total number of confirmed exoplanets ever

🚨 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is ahead of schedule and now launching as early as Sept. 2026 The new flagship observatory is designed to investigate dark energy, dark matter, and exoplanets It also has a field of view 200x greater than Hubble!

The Angel Nebula (NGC 2170) is a reflection nebula within Mon R2, a massive star-forming molecular cloud in Monoceros. It lies ~2,400 light-years away and spans over 60 light-years. Credit: Jason Marriott

🚨 New image of Mars from NASA's Psyche flyby

Earth had 3 very close asteroid flybys last week! All 3 passed closer to us than the Moon AND a 4th, the size of a basketball court, skims past tomorrow too 😮‍💨

NGC 1300, a barred spiral galaxy 70 Mly away, features a nested core: a central bar enclosing a smaller spiral, which hosts a supermassive black hole. This Hubble image is one of the most detailed of a complete galaxy. Credit: NASA/ APOD

Green aurora seen from the International Space Station, 400 km high. The ISS orbits within the auroral display itself, where excited atomic oxygen causes the emerald glow. Credit: NASA/ APOD

🚨 A NASA nuclear engineer has been found dead in a burned Tesla The FBI is now probing a string of mysterious deaths and disappearances among scientists tied to NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin

Mind-blowing shot by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy 😍 He took 1.7 million photos over 6 days just to catch this commercial jet perfectly transiting the sun with solar prominences floating at the exact moment.

The Messier Catalog features 110 deep-sky objects shown at uniform scale. Charles Messier compiled it in the 18th century as a list of "objects to avoid" while comet hunting. Credit: NASA/ APOD

NGC 188 in Cepheus is an open star cluster, 6,000 light-years away and ~7 billion years old. This makes it one of the oldest known open clusters, challenging their typical lifespan. Its ancient red giant stars appear yellowish. Credit: Neven Krcmarek

🚨 An asteroid will safely fly past Earth on Monday nearly 4x closer than the Moon It was only spotted by astronomers a few days ago

Artemis II crew shared a new POV video capturing their first moments back on Earth 🌎 Video shared by Reid Wiseman!

A rare pairing: Comet R3 PanSTARRS, an ancient Oort Cloud relic and Solar System time capsule, shines with a blue ion tail next to the Orion Nebula, our nearest stellar nursery. The comet now … Credit: Julien De Winter, Sascha Ebeler Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

NEWS 🚨: Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around a tiny object beyond Pluto for the first time The object is just 300 miles wide and sits in the Kuiper Belt

Comet R3 PanSTARRS sports two distinct tails: a dust tail glowing from reflected sunlight, and a long, wavy blue ion tail, excited by carbon monoxide, which always points away from the Sun. Credit: Luc Perrot (TWAN)

🚨 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just dropped a new image of galaxy M77

Lunar craters Messier & Messier A, named for Charles Messier, have elongated shapes (15x8 km & 16x11 km in Mare Fecunditatis) due to an extremely shallow-angle impactor trajectory. Seen in this Apollo 11 stereo view. Credit: NASA/ APOD

Comet R3 PanSTARRS is now headed out of our Solar System. Visible to cameras from the Southern Hemisphere toward the west after sunset, it will soon enter Orion. Credit: Jakub Kuřák & Martin Mašek (FZU of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

MOST INSANE image of the Moon's far side! Artemis II astronauts snapped this photo through one of Orion's windows 😱

Saturn and Neptune's "retrograde" motion appears backward as Earth, in its faster orbit, overtakes these slower outer planets. This rare celestial dance, seen from May 2025 to Feb 2026, marks their closest a… Credit: Tunç Tezel (TWAN) Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

Long exposures reveal the Orion Nebula, Flame Nebula, and Barnard's Loop in this stunning view of Orion over a rare, snow-capped Mount Teide. Seen from the Canary Islands. Credit: Marcin Rosadziński

NASA HAS RELEASED OVER 12,000 IMAGES OF THE ARTEMIS II MISSION. Unbelievable perspectives captured by the Crew! The aurora on the eclipse is incredible.

Hubble's view of the Trifid Nebula reveals a nearly light-year-long jet from a dust pillar. Radiation slowly erodes the pillar, potentially uncovering its hidden stellar source in about 20,000 years. Credit: NASA/ APOD

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has a surface hidden by a thick atmosphere. Infrared imaging, compiled from 13 years of Cassini data, penetrates the haze to reveal its features. Credit: NASA/ APOD

Markarian's Chain: A striking string of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest galaxy cluster at 50 million light-years. This massive cluster, with ~2,000 galaxies, gravitationally influences our Local Group. Credit: Chuck Ayoub

Moon, Venus, and the Pleiades: Captured in stunning alignment. While only about six Pleiades stars are typically visible to the eye, astronomers recently discovered thousands more members in this iconic M45 clus… Credit: Gianni Tumino Text: Keighley Rockcliffe (NASA GSFC, UMBC CSST, CRESST II)

Cometary Globules like CG 30 are dense clouds of gas and dust, sculpted by UV radiation and supernova remnants. Within their bright-rimmed heads, cores are collapsing to form new low-mass stars. CG 30 itself shows jets from an actively forming star. Credit: Marcelo Salemme

Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS, seen amidst satellite trails, is currently near the Sun. Best viewed from the Southern Hemisphere soon, it will eventually head out to interstellar space. Credit: Uli Fehr

Within Carina Nebula's "Mystic Mountain," an unseen star is destroying light-year-long gas and dust pillars by ejecting energetic Herbig-Haro jets. These stellar nurseries will fully evaporate in a few million years. Credit: NASA/ APOD

The distorted, fluid Sun at the horizon is a mirage, not melting. Atmospheric refraction, caused by varying air layers bending light, creates these warped images of the reddened solar disk. Credit: Lorenzo Busilacchi

A 2-day-old crescent Moon meets the Pleiades. Its dark side glows with earthshine—sunlight reflected from Earth, creating the 'old moon in the young moon's arms' effect, bright in spring. Credit: Giorgia Hofer

Large Scale Structure of the Universe: This is a map of the universe. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, has finished its five-year survey. It observed more than 47 million galaxies and quasars and created a 3D map centere… Credit: NASA/ APOD

🚨 New iPhone footage from Artemis II of Earth 🌎 (via NASAArtemis)

Happy Earth Day! 🌍

Three Sky Arches over Snowy Alps: Why are there three arches across the sky instead of two? Last month, after being dropped off by a helicopter at a high mountain peak in the Alps near the Swiss Italian border, an adventurous astrophotographer expected two arches of our Milky Way… Credit: Angel Fux

🚨NASA’s Curiosity rover just detected a record 21 organic molecules in a single rock sample from ancient Mars! • Pulled from “Mary Anning 3” in an old lakebed on Mount Sharp • 7 of the molecules identified on Mars for the first time

🚨 Voyager 1 now only has two instruments still operating • One that listens to plasma waves and one that measures magnetic fields — the rest have been turned off to conserve power • It's been flying through space for almost 49 years

Comet R3 PanSTARRS over Himalayas. Its extensive ion tail, best seen by camera, appears long due to Earth's nearly sideways view of the tail as it points away from the Sun. Barely visible, the comet now leaves our Solar System. Credit: Basudeb Chakrabarti & Samit Saha

NEW: Astronaut Reid Wiseman shares a video of ‘Earthset’ that was taken with his iPhone “This is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye…” Wiseman said. This has to be the greatest iPhone video of all time.

This "eye" on the Milky Way is a Chilean lagoon reflecting our galaxy. The smooth band contains billions of stars, light-absorbing dust, and glowing nebulae. Jupiter and Saturn are also visible. Credit: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva)