NASA will soon launch the Artemis I which will fly 40,000 miles beyond the Moon and back to demonstrate the capability of sending humans back to lunar orbit. To celebrate, NASA wants to see everyone's best moon photos in its #NASAMoonSnap campaign. [Read More]
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NASA's Juno spacecraft did a flyby of Jupiter's giant moon Ganymede on June 7. It was the closest any spacecraft has flown to Jupiter's largest moon in more than two decades. NASA has published the first two images from the flyby. dpreview.com »
2021-06-09 21:31
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has used its onboard Faint Object infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) to discover water molecules on the sunlit surface of the Moon. dpreview.com »
2020-10-26 22:18
NASA has just released new raw photos of Saturn’s tiny moon Pan, captured on March 7th, 2017, by the Cassini space probe from about 15,000 miles away (~24,500km). The photos reveal a bizarre-looking moon — one that looks like a giant ravioli floating in space (or a dumpling or walnut or “paper mache mini-planet“). These […] petapixel.com »
2017-03-10 20:03
A lovable sloth named Gerard photobombed a major rocket launch in South America when he unexpectedly appeared on the livestream. [Read More]
NASA has released a stunning photo of fiery lava lakes glowing brightly on the surface of Io, one of Jupiter's moons.
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Andrea Luck, known in astronomy for his unique image processing of planetary images, has released several newly edited, highly-detailed images of Europa. [Read More]
NASA's planetary defense Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) concluded earlier this week and the first photos taken by a small “mini photographer” spacecraft called the LICIACube have been published. [Read More]
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is the world's first planetary defense test mission and it has deployed a smaller "mini photographer" spacecraft that will record all of the details of its planned impact with an asteroid. [Read More]
NASA has shared footage that its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured when it landed on the asteroid Bennu which shows that the surface was a lot less stable than anticipated, leading the space agency to compare it to a "plastic ball pit." [Read More]