At our hearts, we are seekers, and today we celebrate a scientific milestone! Nearly 30 years after the first discovery of a world orbiting a Sun-like star beyond our solar system, @NASA’s Exoplanet Archive reached 6,000 confirmed exoplanets. 🎉 Read more:

Snack time! 🍴 Hubble spotted a burned-out star eating a Pluto-like object. This "snack" is an object from the star system’s own version of the Kuiper Belt, which is an icy ring of debris that encircles our solar system: https://t.co/Cs3Py8DF5H

We’re shook! #TBT to Sept. 14, 2015, when LIGO detected the first signal from ripples in space-time called gravitational waves. Our telescopes didn’t catch a definitive light signal from that event, but we sure did a couple years later, in Aug. 2017. https://t.co/fqLbgBuBL8

That fuzzy, purple smudge is a distant black hole growing at one of the fastest rates ever seen. It's located roughly 12.8 billion light-years from Earth, which means that we're seeing it as it was just ~920 million years after the universe began. More: https://t.co/7633y46GG0

Want to explore worlds beyond our solar system? At @SpaceApps on Oct. 4-5 you can analyze and identify exoplanets with data from our exoplanet-hunting telescope TESS using artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Learn more and register: https://t.co/PZuD6H1HD4

What will it take to find life beyond Earth? Ultra-stable space telescopes. @NASA and ALLVAR are working together on a breakthrough material that could make telescopes 1,000x more stable, opening new doors in the search for habitable worlds. 🔗 https://t.co/2lYZSOpFLa

How do supermassive black holes produce jets of material traveling at near-light-speed? In this exclusive extra from Curious Universe, @NASAGoddard astrophysicist Ronald Gamble talks about his study of these intriguing features. Explore the whole episode: https://t.co/Fa1br2TYLT

Pardon our dust 🚧🌌 @NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy by providing more information about the gas and dust strewn between stars. https://t.co/6KxgjWYsj2

Ready to get started? Check out our Black Hole Matching Game with the Traveler! Explore the galaxy with this space-themed memory match game. Help your little learners build focus, visual memory, vocabulary, and cognitive skills. Just print and play! https://t.co/KdAaJKfAzH

Blast off into back-to-school learning! 🚀 Explore big ideas with your little learner with easy, printable activities designed to spark curiosity, build skills, and introduce preschoolers to the wonders of the cosmos with the help of our Traveler. https://t.co/dNKpOeYgdl

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third known object from outside our solar system to be discovered passing through our neighborhood. ☄ Track its current and future position using our "Eyes on the Solar System" interactive. Here it is passing near Mars in October: https://t.co/CxUyJD1GOX

Our heliosphere is like our “house” in space: Its walls protect us from the weather outside. But every now and then, it springs a leak and a few interstellar particles make it all the way to Earth, leaving traces for us to find! 🌳 By studying these “leaks,” we learn how our

Even our telescopes seem to stop and smell the flowers every once in a while. #MondayMotivation

Looking for ways to explore art & astronomy in your library, science center, museum, or other lifelong learning space? 🎨🪐 The new Cosmic Canvas Program Guides from NASA's Universe of Learning have everything you need to get started! Learn more: https://t.co/OAoTVgc7K4

Our Sun is giving off X-ray vibes. This image combines observations from several space telescopes, including high-energy X-ray data from NuSTAR. The blue regions mark mini solar eruptions that may be key to understanding how the Sun powers its atmosphere. https://t.co/ianvxCIuUZ

What would it take to say we found life beyond Earth? Before NASA scientists make that claim, they must be certain – from ruling out contamination to spotting chemical signals. Watch our expert explain how scientists confirm evidence of life & why the bar is so high:

M83 is a spiral galaxy turned face-on toward Earth. This provides an unfettered view of the entire galaxy that is often impossible with different orientations. In the X-ray image, you can see how @chandraxray has detected the explosions of stars, or supernovas, and their

Remember the “leopard spots” rock Perseverance sampled last year? After a year of scientific scrutiny, the rock remains the mission's best candidate for containing signs of ancient microbial life processes. More on this peer-reviewed finding: https://t.co/p1a0N3o4ZL

Looking like a cosmic double-bladed lightsaber, Webb captured enormous jets of gas 8 light-years across erupting from a massive baby star. This rare sighting is helping us better understand how massive stars form. https://t.co/juKfhfz35r

A happy accident 🌌 Webb's view of a brown dwarf, named "The Accident," discovered in 2020 by a citizen scientist participating in @NASAJPL's now-retired NEOWISE program, could solve a cosmic mystery! https://t.co/qr0zJhIJr7