An alien comet, a Martian volcano, a man’s fall from the sun and a groundbreaking telescope’s first images: Here are the most jaw-dropping space photos of 2025.

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The NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope continues to capture amazing pictures of the universe with its NIRCam, also known as ...

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For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft reveal our star's magnetic field is a powder keg ready to blow. When ...

It’s rocking into spiderwebs. NASA’s Curiosity rover snapped pictures of a long-sought geological structure — dubbed “spiderwebs” — on the Red Planet that indicate a history of flowing water, the ...

To some, science can seem like a cold and impersonal field, all objective data and hard facts. Yet science is a deeply human pursuit, one that can save lives and improve health. Art is a powerful tool ...

Just before dawn, under a bruised Arctic sky, gulls screamed over the freezing waters of a Norwegian fjord. Below them, a biologist stood on the edge of a boat, gripping an airgun. He was scanning the ...

Nearly 170 years ago, a scientist named Eunice Foote discovered a fundamental truth about the gases that surround us. In her home laboratory in New York, she filled one glass cylinder with carbon ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – After months of anticipation, visitors of all ages can enjoy Science Central’s new and improved giant slide. The blue Giant Slide at Science Central is ready to take riders ...