Happy birthday, Neil Armstrong 🎂 He would have been 96 years old today
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On this day 14 years ago, Curiosity rover landed on Mars 🔴
On this day 11 years ago, Curiosity rover landed on Mars This is real footage from its descent
NASA's Curiosity rover recently took close-ups of its broken wheels after nearly 14 years on Mars 😢 The rover has driven over 20 miles across the Red Planet since landing in 2012
Mars seen from the ESA Mars Express (May 2026) Photos processed by Andrea Luck
On August 12, a total solar eclipse will sweep across Greenland, Iceland, Spain, and a slice of Portugal, turning day into night The first total solar eclipse over mainland Europe since 1999
This is what wind gusts sound like on Mars 🔊 Thanks to two microphones on NASA's Perseverance rover
Humans landed on the moon for the first time 57 years ago today 🌕
13 years ago today, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured this iconic view of Earth from Saturn's orbit 🪐 That tiny blue dot is us from nearly 900 million miles away!!
NEWS 🚨: Astronomers have evidence of an atmosphere on a potentially habitable world 49 light-years away "This is an extraordinary result if confirmed. The signal is definitely there" "[If it holds greenhouse gases] it could possess a liquid water ocean warm enough to swim in"
NEWS 🚨: NASA's Curiosity rover has found the first evidence of an 'intense' ancient sandstorm on Mars that occurred billions of years ago
BREAKING 🚨: Astronomers have discovered the faintest planet ever seen from Earth It was found hiding in one of the most studied star systems in our galaxy The planet has been designated Beta Pictoris d
NEWS 🚨: Astronomers have detected sugar in interstellar space for the first time ever The molecule was found in a gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way
NEWS 🚨: NASA is set to begin stacking the SLS rocket for Artemis III within weeks All booster segments and the core stage are now at Kennedy Space Center ahead of a 2027 launch
NEWS 🚨: NASA is looking for 4 volunteers to spend a year in a simulated Moon and Mars mission starting no earlier than August 2027
BREAKING 🚨: China becomes the second nation to recover an orbital rocket’s first stage, after the US The Long March 10B booster hovered on its engines, then dropped straight into a net at sea
NASA's Psyche spacecraft just hit its 1,000th day in space It reaches the metal-rich asteroid Psyche in August 2029 ☄️
Here’s what happens when two galaxies collide ✨ 📽️: NCSA, NASA, B. Robertson, L. Hernquist
Hubble captures a stunning new image of LH 95 🎆 It’s a star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Flying under the south pole of Jupiter, taken by NASA's Juno spacecraft
NASA releases a stunning new image of the Chandelier Cluster 🌌 Globular clusters are dense collections of thousands to millions of stars, all bound together by gravity 📷 Hubble
This is a giant cloud of interstellar dust traveling around our galaxy — blocking out the light of stars ✨ Scientists estimate it to be about the size of our entire solar system 🤯
Largest and most detailed visible-light photo ever taken of the Milky Way’s center ✨ Over 60M stars captured in a single image 😮 📷 @ESA
A star is born ✨ This gorgeous JWST image shows gas and dust glowing around a protostar at the brink of its formation
Today will be the longest day and shortest night of the year for everyone in the Northern Hemisphere Happy summer solstice ☀️
Looking out into the vastness of space from the windows of the ISS ✨ 📷 @Thom_astro
Earlier this month, NASA officially declared its MAVEN spacecraft dead after it went silent on Dec. 6 A review board found it began spinning unexpectedly, draining its batteries and cutting power to its comms 🪦RIP MAVEN 2014 - 2026
NOW 🚨: Today (June 17), the Moon will pass directly in front of Venus in a rare daytime occultation Visible across much of the US, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean
