The sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a galaxy called NGC 6503.
This...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned a spectacular new image of Tethys, a small, icy moon of Saturn.
This view of Tethys was taken by NASA’s Cassini...
A new animated video by NASA’s Dawn mission scientists provides dramatic flyover views of the dwarf planet Ceres.
The video is based on observations...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of the dwarf irregular galaxy PGC 18431.
This image shows the...
New observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope confirm that two Type Ia supernovae discovered six years ago...
A team of astronomers using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found that two of Pluto’s small moons, Nix and Hydra, are not neatly...
This picture of the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres was taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft from a range of about 3,200 miles (5,100 km) on 23 May 2015.
This...
Observations of the inner coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph onboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal...
According to a team of astronomers at Aarhus University in Denmark, Earth-sized terrestrial planets orbit their host stars in circular patterns, much like...
NASA’s Cassini space probe performed a close flyby of Saturn’s irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on 31 May 2015.
Cassini passed Hyperion on 31 May 2015...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed an unusual galaxy called Messier 84.
This image of Messier 84 does not show the...
A new study, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), finds a link between the presence of supermassive black holes...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a collision between two knots of ejected matter in the extragalactic jet blasting out...
NASA engineers have begun testing a car-sized Mars lander, dubbed InSight, scheduled to launch in 2016.
This artist’s rendition shows the InSight Mars...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back its best-yet images of the dwarf planet Pluto and Charon, Pluto’s largest moon.
This image, taken May...
NASA has announced the selection of science instruments for the Europa Clipper, a future mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
Based on new evidence from...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of the Arches Cluster, the densest known cluster...
Using measurements of the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet made by a suite of satellites, a group of scientists led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has beamed back a stunning new picture of the mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres.
A close-up of the mysterious...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a pancake-shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star...
