A camera lens opened up on a 3D lens bench, with the plane of focus cutting through a tiny valley
The Plane of Focus: Learn Optics With a 3D Interactive

Saturday October 10th 2026

Taal Volcano eruption plume at dusk, October 8, 2026
Taal Volcano Minor Eruption Sends 29 Families From Home

Friday October 9th 2026

Before-and-after Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter views of the new McGetchin crater
McGetchin: A Brand-New 43-Metre-Deep Crater on the Moon

Friday September 18th 2026

NASA broadcast title card for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch on Falcon Heavy
Roman Space Telescope Launches

Monday August 31st 2026

Deep-sea animals clustered around a hydrothermal vent in the Doldrums Fracture Zone
New Hydrothermal Vents in the Doldrums Fracture Zone

Wednesday July 8th 2026

Juvenile glass squid collected at 779 metres depth in the South Atlantic
31 New Species in Two Weeks Off Brazil

Saturday June 27th 2026

Starship Flight 12 ship over the Indian Ocean before splashdown, onboard camera view
Starship V3 Debuts, Ship Splashes Down on Target

Saturday May 23rd 2026

Crescent Earth setting behind the cratered lunar horizon, photographed by the Artemis II crew on April 6, 2026
Artemis II Earthset

Tuesday April 7th 2026

Close-up of ancient Antarctic ice with trapped air bubbles lit from behind
Antarctic Ice Stretches the Climate Record to 3 Million Years

Thursday March 19th 2026

Hubble view of the Perseus cluster with the faint galaxy CDG-2 circled in an inset
CDG-2: A Galaxy Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter

Thursday February 19th 2026

Inside the EAST tokamak vacuum vessel in Hefei, China, with tungsten, molybdenum and graphite wall sections labelled
China’s EAST Tokamak Pushes Past the Greenwald Density Limit

Wednesday January 14th 2026

UAH student Sarah Dalessi holding a model of NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Student Leads Discovery of the Fastest Gamma-Ray Burst Jet on Record

Wednesday December 10th 2025

NASA Aqua MODIS satellite view of the Hayli Gubbi ash plume drifting over the Red Sea toward Yemen, November 23, 2025
Hayli Gubbi’s First Documented Eruption, Seen From Space

Tuesday November 25th 2025

Starship Flight 11 launch stream title card
Starship Flight 11 Closes Out Version 2

Tuesday October 14th 2025

Perseverance rover selfie beside the Cheyava Falls rock in Jezero Crater
Perseverance’s Best Shot Yet at Ancient Martian Life

Thursday September 11th 2025