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Punch NFI first light image

PUNCH sees first light, prepares to study how the Sun creates our space weather

Dusty cloud in the Eagle Nebula

A dark, dusty pillar stretches across re-released Hubble image

Plane of the Milky Way

Astronomers find a rare ‘dark galaxy’ within our Local Group

M83: Big, bright, and beautiful

Alien Life, Exoplanets

K2-18 b could have dimethyl sulfide in its air. But is it a sign of life?

International Space Station

Human Spaceflight

Vast bolsters commercial space station plans with key agreements

Jared Isaacman fields questions from senators

Human Spaceflight

NASA Chief nominee Isaacman fields questions about Moon, Mars, Musk

NASA’s Orion spacecraft near the Moon

Human Spaceflight

Keeping up in the second Space Race takes diligence

The New Shepard booster touching down April14

Human Spaceflight

Blue Origin flies Katy Perry, Gayle King, and other customers to space

galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1-LA

Galaxies, Science

JWST spots the earliest galaxy yet clearing the universe’s hydrogen ‘fog’

Fireball meteor

Science, Solar System

Why meteorites that hit Earth have less water than the asteroid bits brought back by space probes — a planetary scientist explains

Jared Isaacman poses near a jet cockpit

Human Spaceflight

Trump’s nomination for NASA leader boasts business and commercial spaceflight experience