The details of the transition from defined rays in the upper atmosphere of the Sun to the solar wind have always been a mystery. Using NASA’s STEREO...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has transmitted a series of images of a Kuiper Belt object known as Quaoar.
This false-color image, taken at 00:06 UTC...
Using five space- and four ground-based telescopes, an international team of astronomers has found the most distant galaxy cluster to date.
This composite...
On August 27, 2016, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully performed its first of 36 close flybys of the giant planet Jupiter.
Jupiter’s north polar region...
The Hubble Space Telescope team has released an incredible new image of the binary star Alpha Centauri AB.
This Hubble WFPC2 image shows Alpha Centauri...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft will get closer to the cloud tops of Jupiter on Saturday, August 27. The flyby is expected to provide preliminary science data.
This...
Astronomers studying black-hole-powered galaxies called blazars have uncovered a surprising link between two very different wavelengths of the light these...
An international team of scientists led by University College London researcher Joel Davis has identified over 10,500 miles (17,000 km) of ancient river...
This beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a galaxy called NGC 5264.
This image, taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys,...
Venus today is an inhospitable place with surface temperatures approaching 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius) and an atmosphere 90 times as thick...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured incredible images of two small, ancient galaxies in the constellation of Pisces. According to astronomers,...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the supernova remnant DEM L71, which is found in the constellation of Dorado.
This Hubble image...
Liquid methane-filled canyons hundreds to thousands of feet deep etch the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, according to researchers with NASA’s Cassini...
A new infrared image from NASA’s Cassini orbiter shows enormous clouds in the northern hemisphere of the gas giant Saturn.
This false-color image from...
According to new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the main phase of volcanism on Mercury ended by 3.5 billion years ago,...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of nearby galaxy NGC 2337.
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on...
A team of astronomers from the United States and France has pinpointed which of 4,270 exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler mission are most likely...
Using data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft about Ceres’ gravity and topography, mission scientists have found that the dwarf planet is ‘differentiated,’...
NASA has shared a stunning new image of Rhea, the second largest moon of the gas giant Saturn.
Water ice on Rhea’s surface makes it bright in full sunlight....
This image from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) is likely the best of the star cluster NGC 4833.
This image shows a small but bright globular...
