space photography

    Ash Creeps Across Mars: Mars Express Captures Decades of Surface Change
    May 9, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Planetary scientists often describe Mars as a world shaped by ancient processes. Most of its volcanoes became inactive billions of years ago. Its magnetic field…

    JWST and Hubble Find Massive Star Clusters Emerge Faster Than Expected
    May 8, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have long treated embedded star clusters as one of the most difficult phases of stellar evolution to observe. Young clusters form within dense molecular…

    James Webb Exposes the Turbulent Core of M77 Galaxy in Infrared
    May 7, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Astronomers have observed Messier 77 for more than two centuries, yet the galaxy continues to reveal new layers of complexity. The latest infrared observations from…

    NASA Releases 12,000 Photos from Artemis II Mission: Top Picks
    May 6, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    NASA’s Artemis II mission generated one of the largest crew-operated deep-space photography archives ever released to the public. During the ten-day mission around the Moon…

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    Rare Apollo 11 Photo of Neil Armstrong on the Moon Sells for $25,469
    May 4, 2026 Alysa Gavilan

    A rare Apollo 11 NASA Type 1 photograph showing Neil Armstrong on the Moon has sold for $25,469, highlighting growing collector interest in space photography.

    Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Detailed Image of NGC 3137
    Apr 30, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    The Hubble Space Telescope continues to play a central role in resolving the fine structure of nearby galaxies. Its high spatial resolution and sensitivity across…

    NASA’s Chandra Captures an “X-Ray Dot” from the Early Universe
    Apr 29, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Observations across multiple wavelengths have begun to resolve a long-standing gap in our understanding of early black hole evolution. Recent data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray…

    ALMA Captures Star Birth Beyond the Milky Way for the First Time
    Apr 29, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Star formation begins with the fragmentation of cold molecular gas into dense, self-gravitating structures. These structures, often referred to as prestellar cores, represent the initial…

    Two Rovers, Two Panoramas: NASA Reveals Two Eras of Mars
    Apr 28, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Planetary geology relies on context. A single rock sample can reveal chemistry, but a landscape reveals history. In recent work, NASA has combined high-resolution panoramas…

    eROSITA Telescope Captures Our Solar System “Breathing”
    Apr 27, 2026 Soumyadeep Mukherjee

    Recent X-ray observations have revealed a time-dependent diffuse emission associated with the solar system. This emission arises from interactions between the solar wind and neutral…