Smithsonian Magazine

See a Diamond Planet, an Exploding Star and a Black Hole Up Close in a New Immersive Virtual Reality Experience

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft finds clues to a century-old cosmic ray mystery near Jupiter

For more than a century, cosmic rays have remained one of astronomy’s lingering puzzles. These tiny particles move through ...
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NASA telescope will scan 100 million stars for planets

NASA’s next big planet hunter is designed to explore regions of the galaxy that almost no one has looked at or studied. The ...
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NASA released 30 amazing high-def photos of the largest planet in our solar system—Jupiter

With all of the worrying things happening here, on earth, one way to take your mind off them is to look at the beauty of the cosmos. Luckily, NASA is still out there exploring outer space and ...