Cosmic House of Mirrors
9 Oct 2026

This NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month features galaxies in incredible detail that have been warped and multiplied like they’ve stepped into a house of mirrors.

Crew-12 Returns to Earth
8 Oct 2026

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev aboard in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026.

Astronomy Picture of the Day

The Most Distant FRB Tells The Story Of Its Origin
Posted on: 9 Oct 2026

Astronomers use the Webb to study a distant fast radio burst and reveal clues as to the origin of these mysterious events.

A Student Finds Three Galaxies and Possibly Solves a Mystery
Posted on: 9 Oct 2026

It's not too often that a high school student-turned undergraduate gets three galaxies named after him, especially ones that are breaking the rules of star formation. Julian Shapiro, an astrophysics student at the University of California, Berkeley, found strange dwarf galaxies in the vicinity of the large spiral M101 while doing research into their star formation rates as a high school student. They're now known as Shapiro I, II, and III. In the process, he's become an inspiration to other students who might be interested in astrophysical research.