Using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, researchers have found new evidence for the occurrence of ground ice on Vesta, the second largest asteroid of...
A new study led by Brown University planetary researchers adds three new large members to the list of water ice-filled craters near Mercury’s north pole...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted an unusual object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: two asteroids orbiting...
River deposits exist across the Martian surface. A large sedimentary basin named Aeolis Dorsa contains some of the planet’s most spectacular and densely...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the well-studied hot Jupiter WASP-12b reflects almost no light, making it appear...
After 20 years in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is nearing the end of its remarkable journey of exploration.
NASA will provide live coverage, commentary,...
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sander Goossens of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has found evidence that the crust of the Red Planet is not as...
On September 15, 2017, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final approach to Saturn, but this encounter will be like no other. This time, Cassini...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully made its eighth flyby of the giant planet Jupiter on September 1, 2017, at 5:49p.m. EDT (2:49p.m. PDT, 21:49 UTC).
This...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a remarkable new picture of NGC 5398.
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the...
X-rays emitted by a Sun-like star may provide valuable information about whether its planetary system will be hospitable to life, a new study suggests....
In a paper published in the journal Nature, Dr. Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and co-authors report observations...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for naming celestial bodies and their surface features, has officially...
On September 6, 2017, an active region on the Sun released two X-class solar flares, captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
An X9.3-class...
Astronomers working with NASA’s 230-foot (70-m) Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, CA, have released the first radar images of the near-Earth asteroid...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5559.
This Hubble image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC...
In a research paper to appear in the Astronomical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), astronomers from MIT, the Geneva Observatory and elsewhere report that...
