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Shimmering in purple like a cherry blossom, the cast-off material once comprised the star's outer layer. It was one of the first made by the telescope when it launched in 2021

The International Space Station needs to be taken out of orbit after 2030, and NASA is planning to use a £1billion space tug to help it be safely crashed back down to Earth

NASA has confirmed they are tracking a new asteroid that's 160ft long and could be set for a collision with Earth in another 23 years, and will continue to monitor its whereabouts

A camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has snapped mysterious "almost perfectly circular" sand dunes on the surface of the planet, leaving scientists baffled

Three giant flying space rocks – called 2012 DK31, 2006 BE55 and 2021 QW – are flying past Earth, with one asteroid coming as close as just 2.2million miles to us

On September 26, NASA deliberately manoeuvred its DART spacecraft, directing it to smash into the Dimorphos asteroid at an incredible speed of 13,000 miles per hour - leading to 1,000 tons of dust and rock blasting off the rock

The amazing footage, which happened last night, could viewed across across the sky and is known as a conjunction and saw planets Jupiter and Venus shifting towards each other

Elon Musk's SpaceX had planned to launch a rocket for NASA to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday with four astronauts onboard, when a technical issue occurred

The supermassive black hole contains over a billion solar masses worth of interstellar dust and lies at the centre of an extreme galaxy and dates back over 13 billion years

Russian space agency Roscosmos has announced that its robotic Luna 25 lander will be heading to the moon in July as the race to lay claim to its rich resources heats up

A massive boom was heard by alarmed residents in McAllen, Texas, US, and a streak of light was seen across the sky. Now fragments of the alien meteorite have been found across the region

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, and Nasa astronaut Francisco Rubio face spending a year in space after a tiny meteor is believed to have damaged their ride home

An asteroid as tall as the Empire State building, named 2011 AG5, flew past Earth this month - in the past scientists once feared it had a chance of impacting on the planet

The meteorite was reported over the town of McAllen, Texas, US, causing such a loud noise terrified residents thought it was an earthquake

Giuseppe Donatiello saw the dwarf galaxy now named Donatiello II by trawling through image after image. He spotted the faint image in one of thousands

Researchers at NASA watched a piece of the Sun break off from its surface creating a vortex. Scientists are now figuring out the implications it will have on Earth

The skies of the UK will be lit up by a Snow Moon tonight; the February full moon will be visible for another two days and will appear alongside Venus and a bright star

The Green Comet' is currently around 26 million miles away, but it will be seen in both northern and southern hemispheres tonight when it will be at its clearest to glimpse before it disappears

Despite being delayed for a year, NASA is now set to launch the Psyche space programme to an asteroid that is so valuable it's worth about 70,000 times the entire global economy

A charming village in the UK which boasts rows of cottages and local pubs surrounded by beautiful scenery has been described as a 'UFO hotspot' with 'NASA's scientists showing interest'

Top scientists in the US have developed a new laser tailored to NASA space missions to detect signs of extraterrestrial life on other planets without compromising activity

Former helicopter pilot Bruce Melnick has twice visited space on NASA shuttles and now works as an ambassador for the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Complex in his native Florida

The 26ft asteroid will pass as close to Earth as the distance from London to Cairo and 10 times closer than satellites - and will be visible from our skies tonight

The asteroid, known as 2023 BU, will zoom 2,200 miles above the southern tip of South America - 10 times closer than most communication satellites circling overhead, and around the same distance as the UK to Cyprus

The E3 comet, which was last seen from Earth during the Stone Age, is set to make its closest approach to the planet on February 1 and could become visible to the naked eye