Plate Tectonics Discovered on Mars
While analyzing roughly 100 satellite images from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, UCLA scientist An Yin discovered that…
While analyzing roughly 100 satellite images from NASA’s THEMIS spacecraft and the HIRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, UCLA scientist An Yin discovered that…
Composed from several images taken by the 34-millimeter Mast Camera on Curiosity, this new image is the first 360-degree color panorama of the Gale Crater…
First noticed in 1885, noctilucent clouds have left researchers with many unanswered questions and now that scientists working on NASA’s AIM mission have detected bits…
Enjoy this two-minute flight through the universe animation, which includes close to 400,000 galaxies, and the accompanying first public release of data from the Baryon…
Using a new unbiased technique to calculate dark matter, a new study from a team of astronomers suggests that there are large amounts of invisible…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to take images of Mars surface and Gale Crater. These latest images include the first full-resolution images of the Martian surface…
Planetary scientists discovered unexpected and enormous ice avalanches on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, half of which is light-colored while the other is dark. Its mountains are…
Using the HiRISE camera, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a new image of Curiosity and the components that helped it survive its seven-minutes of terror…
Using complex direct N-body simulations, scientists believe they solved the mystery of ultramassive stars of cluster R136 in the Tarantula nebula, discovering that the stars…
Taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the afternoon of the first day after landing, the above image is Curiosity’s first color image…
As NASA’s Curiosity rover descended on Mars, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of Curiosity and its parachute with the High Resolution Imaging Science…
In a new study, a team of astronomers set out to evaluate the accuracy of the spectral energy distribution (SED) models, finding that the models…
The above image is one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover after its successful landing on Mars. NASA’s most advanced Mars rover…
On a mission to explore interstellar space, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft showed a rapid increase in the levels of high-energy cosmic ray particles, jumping by…
Using sodium gas signatures, which have been recognized as being associated with type Ia supernovae, a team of scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science…
In an effort to better understand what astronomers should see when they look at the atmospheres of super-Earths, scientists are using computer simulations to see…
A newly published study describes the X-ray signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, that was observed the days following the last years discovery of…
A soon-to-be published study from scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science provides the first fully three-dimensional models for how a shock wave from a supernova…