New Herschel Images of the Andromeda Galaxy
Two new images from the Herschel Space Observatory highlight the ring-like swirls of dust that fill the Andromeda galaxy. The new eye-catching views from the…
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Seasonal Thawing Transforms Mars Surface
A new video from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the springtime thaw of seasonal carbon dioxide ice on Mars that allows dust and gas to…
Herschel Views Red Supergiant Star Betelgeuse
This new image from Herschel’s Photodetecting Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) shows the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, which is located in the Orion Constellation and…
Mars Orbiter Shows McLaughlin Crater May Have Once Held a Groundwater-Fed Lake
New data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that the McLaughlin Crater once held a lake fed by groundwater. A NASA spacecraft is providing new…
Amazon Area Twice the Size of California Still Suffering From the Effects of a Megadrought
A new study from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that 700,000 square kilometers of forest in southwestern Amazonia is still suffering from a megadrought that…
Windblown Sand Is Changing Titan’s Surface
Data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has allowed scientists to put together the first quantitative estimate of how much the weather on Titan has modified its…
Curiosity Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock
If all goes as planned, NASA’s Curiosity rover may drill its first rock sample in the coming days, providing scientists with important details about the…
Asteroid Apophis Will Make a Record Setting Close Approach to Earth
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, scientists gathered new data on the asteroid Apophis, an asteroid that will make a recording-setting close approach to Earth and…
Hubble & Spitzer See Weather Patterns in a Brown Dwarf
By using the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to simultaneously view the brown dwarf planet 2MASSJ22282889-431026, a team of astronomers has created a…
NuSTAR Images of Spiral Galaxy IC 342 & Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array is providing scientists with greater sensitivity and imaging capability and giving them new information on a wide array of cosmic…
Curiosity Returns Images of “Snake River” & Explores “Yellowknife Bay”
Over the holidays, NASA’s Curiosity rover returned new images of “Snake River” and is now in a shallow depression called “Yellowknife Bay.” This is the…
New Robotic Platform Could Take Space Exploration to New Heights
A team of scientists from Stanford, MIT, and JPL has developed an autonomous system for exploring moons and asteroids that could help take space exploration…
New Cassini Image of Saturn and Its Rings
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has delivered new backlit image of the Saturn and its rings. Just in time for the holidays, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, in orbit…
Zeta Ophiuchi, 80,000 Times Brighter Than the Sun and Traveling at 54,000 MPH
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an image of Zeta Ophiuchi, a star that is traveling at 54,000 mph and is about six times hotter, eight…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Nearing Yellowknife Bay
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to explore the Martian surface, approaching an area called “Yellowknife Bay,” which is a potential location for selecting the first target…
New Images of Near-Earth Asteroid 2007 PA8
Nine new radar images were taken of asteroid 2007 PA8, a near-Earth asteroid that measures roughly 1.6 kilometers wide. 2007 PA8 passed at a distance…
New Image of Supernova Remnant W44
Using combined data, astronomers have created a new image of supernova remnant W44, which is located roughly 10,000 light-years away in the constellation of Aquila….
NASA’s Curiosity Finds Clues to Changes in Mars’ Atmosphere
Instruments aboard Curiosity have analyzed samples of the atmosphere collected near the “Rocknest” site in Gale Crater, finding that the top of the Martian atmosphere…