Hot, Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets often have cloud or haze layers in their atmospheres, and this may prevent astronomers from detecting atmospheric...
The Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera onboard NASA’s New Horizons robotic probe captured this image of Pluto only 19 minutes after closest approach...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of UGC 4879, the most isolated dwarf galaxy in the periphery of the Local Group of...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding between 5% and 9% faster than previously calculated.
Cosmic...
NASA has released an absolutely outstanding photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of a colorful collection of stars in the constellation of Scorpius.
This...
Researchers using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have found evidence of an ice age recorded in the Red Planet’s polar caps.
This image,...
Powerful coronal mass ejection events from the young Sun may have provided the crucial energy needed to warm early Earth, according to a team of researchers...
Using data from three of NASA’s space observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of an enormous group of galaxies in the constellation of Leo.
This Hubble image shows...
NASA has released new images and data on the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 1994 JR1 from the New Horizons spacecraft.
This image of 1994 JR1 was taken by New...
On May 12, 2016, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this incredible photo of Mars, when the planet...
A new study modeling conditions in Europa’s global liquid ocean suggests that the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there.
Europa....
The four spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth’s space...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 5308.
This Hubble image shows the lenticular galaxy NGC...
According to observations from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope-K2 extended mission, the dwarf planet and trans-Neptunian...
The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped photos of a periodic comet called 252P/LINEAR.
This Hubble Space...
The Kepler-223 multi-planet system is trapped in an orbital configuration that the Solar System’s four gas giants may have broken from in its early history,...
A team of astronomers from NASA and Princeton University has confirmed that 1,284 extrasolar objects by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft are indeed...
NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), the largest airborne observatory in the world, has detected atomic oxygen in the upper...
![SOFIA/GREAT spectrum of oxygen [OI] superimposed on an image of Mars from NASA’ MAVEN mission. The amount of atomic oxygen computed from SOFIA data is about half the amount expected. Image credit: NASA / DLR / USRA / DSI / MPIfR / GREAT Consortium / MPIfS / Rezac et al / MAVEN.](https://cdn.sci.news/images/2016/05/image_3853-Mars-Atomic-Oxygen-195x110.jpg)
