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A beautiful new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a pair of angelic "wings" produced by a galactic collision.

As one of the last milestones before liftoff at the end of the year, the first Meteosat Third Generation weather satellite is being fitted with its Lightning Imager. From geostationary orbit, 36 000 km above Earth’s surface, this state-of-the-art European instrument will continuously monitor lightning over more than 80% of Earth’s disc for early warnings of dangerous storms. Remarkably, it is capable of imaging relatively weak lightning events in full sunlight.

On April 20, 2016, the moon did not turn green. The moon has never been green and will probably never turn green, despite what any viral internet memes may tell you.

Credit: NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter imaged by the zoomable Mastcam-Z camera on the Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

The first-ever powered flights over another planet have proved a resounding success for NASA’s JPL team, which is celebrating Ingenuity’s 12-month anniversary of its first helicopter hop on Mars Tuesday.

About 1,500 flames were ignited on the International Space Station in five years to learn how fire behaves in microgravity.

About 1,500 flames were ignited on the International Space Station in five years to learn how fire behaves in microgravity.

Perseverance just reached the remains of an ancient Red Planet river delta, a set of layered rocks that has long been the life-hunting rover's main science target.

Perseverance just reached the remains of an ancient Red Planet river delta, a set of layered rocks that has long been the life-hunting rover's main science target.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a unique group of merging galaxies that provides a glimpse into processes in the early universe.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a unique group of merging galaxies that provides a glimpse into processes in the early universe.

Read that latest news about SpaceX's Crew-3 mission to the International Space Station for NASA.

Crew-4's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule were rolled out to Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (April 19) to gear up for a planned launch on Saturday (April 23).

NASA's Lucy spacecraft captured a series of stunning stellar images on its trip toward Jupiter.

Image: Celebrating Hubble’s 32nd birthday with a galaxy grouping

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, the only mission to visit Uranus up close, recorded this view of the planet as it approached on Jan. 14, 1986. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

In a long-awaited report released Tuesday, a panel of planetary scientists recommended NASA prioritize development of a flagship robotic science mission that would orbit Uranus, a distant world with 27 known moons that has not been explored since a fleeting visit by the Voyager 2 spacecraft 36 years ago.

The solar system is overflowing with fascinating destinations, but NASA can only operate so many missions.

Radar measurements of ice on Earth suggest that Jupiter's moon Europa might host water near its surface.

The Andromeda constellation, named by ancient Greeks after the mythological princess Andromeda, contains the Andromeda Galaxy, the nearest full-fledged galaxy to our own Milky Way.

Here are some of the coldest places in our solar system.