NASA scientists using the framing camera aboard the Dawn spacecraft have created the first color map of the dwarf planet Ceres.
This color map of Ceres...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr Javier Martin-Torres of the Spanish Research Council in Spain and the Lulea University of Technology in...
According to NASA chief scientist Dr Ellen Stofan, in the next twenty years, scientists may very well finally answer whether we are alone in the Solar...
This newly released Hubble image shows Messier 22, the brightest globular cluster visible from the northern hemisphere.
This is a close-up of the central...
This March 18, 2015, view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity rover shows a network of two-tone mineral veins at an area called Garden...
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has captured the best images so far of Rhea, the fourteenth of Saturn’s known moons.
This mosaic image from...
Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a stunning new image of the spiral galaxy...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr David Harvey of the Observatory of Sauverny in Switzerland and the University of Edinburgh, UK, has studied...
Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a spectacular new image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5023.
NGC 5023 is seen edge-on in this...
Scientists using the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) instrument on NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft have observed...
Researchers using data from NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission have created global-scale maps of...
Planetary scientists using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission have discovered a 124-mile-wide crater on the nearside...
NASA’s Cassini space probe has captured a close-up view of the beautiful and glamorous rings of Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun.
This close-up...
A team of astronomers has created a new comprehensive catalog of astronomical objects observed with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This image shows...
Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have looked at a dwarf galaxy called SBS 1415+437 with unprecedented clarity.
This image shows the...
Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered new evidence for a massive subterranean ocean on Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar...
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured an image of a mid-level solar flare on March 11, 2015, seen as a bright flash of light close to the...