NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has its next flyby target, the small main belt asteroid  Donaldjohanson, in its sights. By blinking between images captured by Lucy on Feb. 20 and 22, this animation shows the perceived motion of Donaldjohanson relative to the background stars as the spacecraft rapidly approaches the asteroid.

A new book by UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist and visual artist Nia Imara debuts on Feburary 25 that explains the universe and traces how art has blended with science throughout human history.

A study identifies the shoreline of an ancient ocean on Mars. 

Scientists have uncovered lots of evidence that Mars had standing water billions of years ago, before the planet lost its atmosphere. But did it have oceans? Measurements obtained by ground penetrating radar aboard the Chinese rover Zhurong show beach deposits below the surface of Utopia Planitia, an area in Mars' northern plains that some think was an ancient ocean. The deposits, dipping like beach deposits on Earth, would have taken millions of years to form.

Scientists have uncovered lots of evidence that Mars had standing water billions of years ago, before the planet lost its atmosphere. But did it have oceans? Measurements obtained by ground penetrating radar aboard the Chinese rover Zhurong show beach deposits below the surface of Utopia Planitia, an area in Mars' northern plains that some think was an ancient ocean. The deposits, dipping like beach deposits on Earth, would have taken millions of years to form.