Hubble Telescope celebrates 36th anniversary with gorgeous new image of famous Trifid Nebula

This latest image from Hubble forms just one of more than 1.7 million observations that the space telescope has made over the past 36 years since it launched on April 24, 1990.

Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth

The twin eruptions briefly disrupted radio signals across the dayside of Earth.

What will happen when our sun starts dying? These ‘stellar archaeologists’ may have found a clue

Acting as stellar archaeologists, scientists have found fossilized magnetism on long-dead white dwarf stars, which may help to explain how stars evolve.

These ‘interstellar glaciers’ could give water to young star systems. Could they support alien life, too?

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope reveals widespread water ice in Cygnus X, showing how dust shields molecules in star-forming regions across the Milky Way.

Ancient volcanic ash seen blowing across Mars in new spacecraft images

New images from the Mars Express spacecraft show ancient volcanic ash spreading across the Red Planet.

James Webb Space Telescope peers into a dying star surrounded by mysterious buckyballs: ‘The structures we’re seeing now are breathtaking’

The James Webb Space Telescope captured the first detailed images of planetary nebula Tc 1, revealing new details of what happens after a sun-like star dies.

Interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS formed in a world much colder than the solar system

“Each interstellar comet brings a little bit of its history, its fossils, from elsewhere.”

NASA’s TESS spacecraft discovers a weird system of exoplanets unlike anything seen before

“Most planetary systems appear as ‘peas in a pod.’ This is not the case in the TOI-201 system.”

Nebula sparkles in new Hubble snapshot | Space photo of the day for April 23, 2026

Hubble revisits the Trifid Nebula in a spectacular image, revealing it’s expansive splendor.

Japan’s audacious sample-return mission to the Mars moon Phobos has made it to the launch pad

The complex MMX mission aims to shed light on the origins of Mars’ two tiny moons, Phobos and Deimos, bringing Phobos material back to Earth in 2031.