The universe’s origin story lies in fast-moving and faraway objects.

Far-off clouds of gas and dust are the eye-popping birthplaces of new stars.

…They Are Galaxies Far, Far Away

These strange collection of stars aren’t galaxies, but random groups of hundreds of millions of stars.

Juno has documented clusters of cyclones, including eight around the north pole.

After a star forms, a leftover ring of dust and gas eventually forms into planets.

Juno completed its eleventh orbit of the planet on February 7, capturing some spectacular images in the process.

The Opportunity rover has been exploring Mars for 14 years. But that doesn’t mean it can’t put Curiosity’s social media skills to shame.

The spacecraft was 3.79 billion miles from Earth when it snapped this photo of a Kuiper Belt object.

The Mars rover is driving along the Vera Rubin ridge, a slope rich in clay minerals that require water to form.

A dust storm predicted for 2018 could change the face of the Red Planet.

When NASA’s Juno spacecraft whizzes by Jupiter’s poles, it manages to snap clear photos at astounding speeds.

At the heart of our own Milky Way galaxy is a big, black hole—and NASA just snapped a photo of it.

Every time Juno swoops down, it comes within one Earth diameter of Jupiter—and the photos are worth the risk.

The universe is full of nurseries incubating new stars—and when they finally explode, their remnants tell scientists about their stellar lives.

These mesmerizing blue and white swirls are giant cyclones and storms that roar in the gas giant’s upper atmosphere.

Look out! That galaxy’s missing an arm!

Just like your belly, Mars has scars left by the ebb and flow of magma from ancient volcanoes.

The gas giant’s got swirls for days.

Let’s get lunar.