After photographing Earth and the Moon from 71 million miles away back in January, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is back again with a new photo of its target asteroid, Bennu, shot from an incredibly close distance of just 0.
4 miles (690m) away. OSIRIS-REx captured the shot with NavCam 1 (one of its 3 navigation cameras) on […]. petapixel.com
A private spacecraft heading to the Moon has snapped an awesome photo of Earth -- showing the planet as a "blue marble" glowing against the vast emptiness of space. [Read More]
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 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]