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

Stratospheric Balloon Telescope Peeks Above The Clouds At The Sun
Posted on: 10 Oct 2026

There’s lots of things you can do with balloons. Children’s birthday parties come to mind, as do retirement parties. But you can also observe the Sun in unprecedented detail with one - or at least with a suite of equipment attached to a gondola floating beneath one. That’s what the SUNRISE III mission did back in 2024, and scientists have had time to compile a series of three scientific papers on the results from that mission, which have been published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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.