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A tiny, colorful sea slug on the move

Microscopic Universes Come Alive in Nikon’s Small World in Motion Contest

September 22, 2026

people stand in a gallery with large red-topped mushrooms sprouting from the ceiling

Spanning 200+ Works, a New Book Celebrates the World of Fungi

September 8, 2026

a floating artwork by Tomás Saraceno featuring a patchwork object resembling an unusual air balloon over a square

‘Inploration’ Highlights Dozens of Artists Who Explore Space to Understand Earth

September 4, 2026

a large dirigible departs from Pasadena in a black-and-white photo

Twelve Centuries of Documents Illuminate Humans’ Quest for Knowledge in ‘Worlds Unfolding’

September 1, 2026

a gif of a high-resolution up-close image of the sun's surface with undulating wave-like details

Get Up Close to the Sun in the Highest Resolution Image Ever Captured

August 12, 2026

an astronomy photo of the spiral galaxy Andromeda

Nebulae, Comets, and Aurorae, Oh My! See the ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Shortlist

July 6, 2026

a very detailed photograph of the bulge in the center of the Milky Way galaxy

Scan More than 60 Million Stars in the Most Detailed Photo of the Milky Way Ever Taken

June 30, 2026

an image of an orange galaxy with a light through it

In a New 223-Megapixel Image, NASA Captures 16.5 Million Stars of the Cigar Galaxy

June 26, 2026

a "light painting" photograph with a double cone of swirling light, created using a drone, over a dramatically lit nighttime desert landscape

Elliot McGucken Suspends Einstein’s ‘Light Cones’ Over Desert Expanses

June 23, 2026

a recently discovered type of goby fish

In a Single Year, Ocean Census Scientists Discovered More than 1,100 New Marine Species

May 27, 2026

a group of dozens of handmade fabric birds with paper tags identifying them, modeled after real birds

Around North America, Community Members Are Stitching Nearly 11,000 Birds

May 21, 2026

a handmade wool carpet illuminated by a black light on a wall with a symmetrical, undulating, psychedelic form in the middle

Faig Ahmed Weaves Mysticism, Science, Technology, and Craft into ‘The Attention’

May 14, 2026

The cratered surface of the top of the Moon

NASA Just Dropped More Than 12,000 Photos from the Artemis II Mission

May 6, 2026

A Victorian-era illustrated transparency of tiny marine creatures

Vibrant Victorian-Era Transparencies Illuminate a Host of Microscopic Creatures

May 4, 2026

Five vertical frames of the earth's surface captured from NASA's Landsat program with landforms that loosely resemble letters of the alphabet, arranged to spell "EARTH"

Spell Your Name with NASA’s Earthly Alphabet of Aerial Images

April 29, 2026

A photo taken during the Artemis II mission around the Moon huge in the foreground, with the Earth setting beyond

Artemis II Captures Spectacular Images of ‘Earthset’ from Deep Space

April 8, 2026