Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope and NASA’s Chandra and Hubble space telescopes have solved the mystery of a rare change in the behavior...
Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission have learned that reddish material in the north polar region of Pluto’s biggest moon, Charon, is chemically...
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have made the first detections of X-rays from Pluto. This X-ray emission comes from interaction between...
A set of new photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover reveals signs of past geologic activity.
This view from Curiosity’s Mast Camera shows a sloping...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have been able to study stellar evolution in real time.
This image of the Stingray Nebula was taken...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of lenticular galaxy PGC 83677.
This image snapped by Hubble’s ACS instrument shows...
An artist concept of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Image credit: NASA / Goddard.
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith...
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Telescope have revealed the unusual mix of stars in the...
A new close-up image from NASA’s New Horizons robotic spacecraft reveals snowcapped mountains in the southernmost part of Pluto.
Snowcapped mountains...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of gas and dust within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy...
Researchers on the Dawn mission released a series of six groundbreaking papers on the dwarf planet Ceres today in the journal Science. The new results...
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...
