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llustration labeled u201cartistu2019s conceptu201d at right bottom corner. At left bottom corner, a partially illuminated, lemon-shaped exoplanet appears against a black background. This planet is most brightly illuminated at its elongated tip on its right side. On the left side, which is wider, the planet trails off into the darkness of the background. The planet is colored in varying, mottled shades of red, light pink, and fuchsia. Most of the pink occurs closest to the tip, while most of the fuchsia is at the top and bottom edges. At right top corner, a white beam emanates diagonally, oriented from 10 ou2019clock to 4 ou2019clock, from either side of a small, glowing, white star.

December 16, 2025

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have observed a rare type of exoplanet, or planet outside our…

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NASA’s Webb Detects Thick Atmosphere Around Broiling Lava World

December 11, 2025

Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected the strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a…

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Jessica Watkins wears safety goggles and blue gloves while holding a plant growth unit with leafy greens and a large tangle of roots exposed. Bob Hines, in a black shirt, looks on from the background inside the space station laboratory.

November 22, 2025

November marks 25 years of human presence aboard the International Space Station, a testament to international collaboration and…

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View Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Through NASA’s Multiple Lenses

November 19, 2025

Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign,…

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An illustration of a young planet with a surrounding disk of dust and gas potentially forming moons. The planet, which appears dark red, is shown at lower right, circled by a cloudy, clumpy reddish orange-colored disk. The host star appears at upper left, and glows yellow, with its own reddish disk of debris. The disk that surrounds the planet takes up about half the illustration. The black background of space is speckled with stars. At the bottom of the illustration, graphics of molecules are listed in the following order: diacetylene, hydrogen cyanide, propyne, acetylene, ethane, carbon dioxide, benzene. The words Artist’s Concept appear at upper right.

September 30, 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of…

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A wide view of a region of space filled with stars and clumps of orange clouds.

September 24, 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a colorful array of massive stars and glowing cosmic dust in…

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe), Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Space Weather Follow On-Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) missions launches from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025.

September 24, 2025

Lee este comunicado de prensa en español aquí. NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched three…

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$Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.$