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NASA's Hubble telescope reveals most detailed photos of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS to date
By Pandora Dewan published
New images from the Hubble telescope show an extrasolar entity as it hurtles through our solar system at speeds of more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h).

NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars
By Sascha Pare published
NASA's Curiosity rover has snapped black and white images of a rock on the Martian surface that looks remarkably like a piece of coral.

NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week
By Jamie Carter published
Scientists have released nine dazzling images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, blending data with the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes to reveal black holes, star clusters and distant galaxies like never before.

Embattled 'arsenic life' paper retracted by journal Science 15 years after publication
By Kristina Killgrove published
A controversial 2010 study that suggested bacteria could grow using arsenic instead of phosphorus has been retracted by the research journal Science.

Giant space 'boulders' unleashed by NASA's DART mission aren't behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids
By Harry Baker published
Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution than expected, which "changes the physics we need to consider when planning these types of missions," researchers say.

Parker Solar Probe captures closest-ever photos of the sun during record-breaking flight
By Victoria Atkinson published
During a record-smashing flight through the sun’s corona in Dec. 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured the closest-ever images of our home star. Now, NASA has finally revealed what the daredevil probe saw.
'Never been seen before': First images from new ISS solar telescope reveal subtle 'fluctuations' in sun's outer atmosphere
By Harry Baker published
NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible changes that could help scientists better predict potentially dangerous space weather events.

Listen to the Andromeda galaxy's stars played as musical notes in eerie NASA video
By Patrick Pester published
NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to musical notes.

Zombie NASA satellite emits powerful radio pulse after 60 years of silence
By Sascha Pare published
Last year, astronomers detected a powerful burst of radio waves from within our galaxy. Researchers now say it came from NASA's defunct Relay 2 satellite — but they're not sure what caused it.
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