1969: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon, humanity's giant leap beyond Earth.
1977 launch, now the farthest humanâmade object, carrying Earthâs message into interstellar space.
2021: Searching for ancient life on Mars and caching samples for future return missions.
Shattered moons of ice and rock form these iconic, everâevolving rings around the gas giant.
A 300+âyear tempest, the Great Red Spot reveals the dynamic weather of the largest planet.
Venus has sulfuric acid rain, but it never hits the ground. Due to the extreme surface heat (over 460°C), the acid evaporates mid-fall.
Our home: a spiral of 100Â billion stars, full of mysteries across 100Â 000 lightâyears.
Nearest spiral galaxy, slowly drifting toward us for a collision in ~4Â billion years.
Almost no dark matter was detected in this galaxy (2018).
The supermassive hole anchoring our galaxy, with the mass of 4Â million suns in a tiny volume.
NASA detected sound waves from a black hole in the Perseus galaxy cluster.
Black holes aren't always stationary â they can roam around space!
Since 1990, capturing breathtaking deepâspace images and reshaping our cosmic perspective.
Launched 2021, peering into the universeâs infancy, unveiling galaxies and stellar nurseries.
Launched 2003,helped in discovering exoplanets and mapping dust clouds.