SPACENASA says the merging galaxies created a "partially blended mix of stars." The universe is full of secrets, and space professionals see some unexpected happenings in the cosmos daily.
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter successfully completed its seventh flight on Mars. The space helicopter landed in a new airfield that had only been imaged by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft.
NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly past Ganymede at 1:35 p.m. EDT. The flyby will be the closest-known since Galileo spacecraft made its penultimate close approach on May 20, 2000.
There are now two SpaceX Dragon spacecraft aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after the CRS-22 mission recently docked delivering new solar arrays and research experiment supplies.
CIBER-2 is planned to launch soon, aiming for the total count of stars. Using astonishing methods, the rocket is expected to reveal more than the currently known in the universe.
Two cosmonauts have ended their seven-hour spacewalk on the International Space Station in preparation for the arrival of the Russian module on the ISS.
SpaceX has launched glow-in-the-dark baby squids and tardigrades into the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a cargo resupply mission in support of NASA's space experiments.
NASA is returning to Venus for the first time in more than 30 years. The two $500 million missions, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, will launch in the next 10 years.
The space station offers a lot of opportunities to get smaller things into space. Astronauts unload and prep the CubeSats on station and then deploy them out of its airlock 250 miles above the planet.
Space agencies NASA and ESA released a new image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the spiral galaxy NGC 691, the eponymous galaxy for the galaxy group where it belongs.