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...
Almost a month after slipping into orbit around the Solar System’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft is nearing a turning point.
Juno. Image credit:...
An international team of astronomers led by Texas Tech University scientist Dr. Christopher Britt has spotted a very young star, called CXOGBS J173643.8-282122...
A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the remains of a supernova explosion known as DEM L316A.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of Abell S1063, a massive cluster of galaxies in the constellation Grus.
In the center...
A team of astronomers has reported a huge haul of new exoplanets discovered and confirmed using data from the first year of the Kepler/K2 mission. Among...
One year ago, NASA’s New Horizons space probe entered the history books by exploring the Pluto system. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University...
This image, taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the star-forming galaxy NGC 3125.
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The latest images released by NASA’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) team show ‘Morse code’ dunes on the Martian surface.
‘Morse...
The subject of this Hubble image is LEDA 56779, a spiral galaxy located 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules.
This image from...
Members of NASA’s Juno mission have been busying themselves, getting the spacecraft ready for operations in orbit around Jupiter.
This artist’s rendering...
Saturn’s flying saucer-shaped moon Pan, also known as Saturn XVIII, is seen in this stunning image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft as it sweeps through...
A team of researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, has uncovered a chemical trail that suggests prebiotic conditions may exist on the surface...
After almost five years and 1.7 billion miles (2.7 billion km), NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered the orbit around the biggest planetary inhabitant...
