Chandrayaan-2 is on its way to the moon

Following a series of successful maneuvers, India's Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has shifted trajectories and is now on its way to the moon.

Did these tardigrades survive crash-landing on the moon?

When Israel's Beresheet lunar spacecraft crashed in April 2019, there were thousands of microscopic, dehydrated tardigrades - water bears - aboard.

Check out these interacting galaxies

Hubble image of an interacting galactic duo known as UGC 2369.

Update on India’s Chandrayaan-2 moon mission

Tomorrow, the spacecraft will shift from its orbit of Earth toward a path to the moon.

Astronomers see a new type of pulsating star

At Palomar Observatory near San Diego, a dedicated telescope spends its nights surveying the heavens. A recent analysis of its data revealed 4 stars that change in brightness, over just minutes.

Can snowball planets support life?

Snowball planets are rocky worlds with frozen oceans. They were thought to be lifeless. But a new study suggests some might have land areas near their equators warm and wet enough to support life.

IAU approves 2nd round of names for Pluto features

New Horizons provided close-up images of Pluto in 2015. For many on Earth today, these spacecraft images provide a once-in-a-lifetime glimpse of Pluto. Read about the new Pluto feature names.

Hubble’s new portrait of Jupiter

This new Hubble Space Telescope portrait of Jupiter reveals a smaller-than-usual Great Red Spot and an intense color palette in Jupiter's swirling clouds. NASA said, "The colors, and their changes, provide important clues to ongoing processes in Jupiter’s atmosphere."

Look around from Mars rover’s point of view

Here’s what the Curiosity rover is seeing after 7 years on Mars. Curiosity captured this 360-degree interactive panorama on June 18.

A mega-tsunami on ancient Mars?

It's likely Mars was once a water world with rivers, lakes and maybe even an ocean. New research lends support to the possibility that an asteroid slammed into Mars' ocean 3.5 billion years ago, creating a vast tsunami.

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