Space Facts & Astronomy

Discover amazing space facts, astronomy pictures of the day, and fascinating information about our universe from NASA.

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Mar 1, 2026

How does the Moon's appearance change during a total lunar eclipse? The featured time-lapse video was digitally process...

Feb 28, 2026

Fans of the western sky after sunset have lately enjoyed this month's remarkable array of bright planets. Witnessed from...

Feb 27, 2026

Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic field of view. Floating in the in...

Feb 26, 2026

What does the universe look like through infrared goggles? Our eyes can only see visible light, but astronomers want to...

Feb 25, 2026

ver wonder what it would look like to crack open the Sun? The Egg Nebula, a dying Sun-like star, can unscramble this qu...

Feb 24, 2026

Look up this week and see a whole bunch of planets. Just after sunset, looking west (mostly), planets Mercury, Venus, S...

Feb 23, 2026

Have you ever seen the Pleiades star cluster? Even if you have, you probably have never seen it as large and clear as th...

Feb 22, 2026

What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human? Then you might be the Opportunity rover exploring Mars. Oppor...

Feb 21, 2026

Only two days after the February New Moon's annular eclipse of the Sun, a slender lunar crescent poses above the western...

Feb 20, 2026

"A ghost in the Milky Way…” says Christian Bertincourt, the astrophotographer behind this striking image of Barnard 93 (...

Feb 19, 2026

Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, s...

Feb 18, 2026

Cradled in red-glowing hydrogen gas, stars are being born in Orion. These stellar nurseries lie at the edge of the gian...