Dawn Images Reveal New Details on Dwarf Planet Ceres
New images NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft reveal surface features of dwarf planet Ceres in exquisite detail. Dawn took these images near its current altitude of 240…
New images NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft reveal surface features of dwarf planet Ceres in exquisite detail. Dawn took these images near its current altitude of 240…
This newly released image shows radial troughs on the surface of Mars. Mars’ seasonal cap of carbon dioxide ice has eroded many beautiful terrains as…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 3597, which is located 150 million light-years away. The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
The latest New Horizons image reveals some intriguing surface activity on Pluto. Transmitted to Earth on December 24, this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy. When some speedy, massive…
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have discovered Eta Carinae “twins” in other galaxies that will help scientists better understand this brief phase…
Using Chandra observations, astronomers have discovered one of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing powerful outbursts. Such outbursts are part…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft made history this year giving us a close-up view of Pluto for the first time. Now it will start the New…
This newly released Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4845, which is located over 65 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The…
The latest satellite image from the U.S./European Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 mission shows that the current strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean…
This Hubble image of the week shows the galaxy NGC 6052, which is located around 230 million light-years away in the constellation of Hercules. It…
This false-color image of Pluto is perfect for the Christmas holiday season. Pluto gets into the holiday spirit, decked out in red and green. This…
Unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a section of the prime instrument in the science payload has led to NASA’s decision to suspend the…
This new Cassini image dramatically displays the contrast between the older and newer terrain on Enceladus. Newer surfaces (on the left in the image) will…
This newly released Hubble image shows HH34, which resides approximately 1,400 light-years away near the Orion Nebula. The artistic outburst of an extremely young star,…
Using data from the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, astronomers continue to learn more about this icy world and its system of satellites. New Horizons…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views a newborn star shooting twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. Just in…
NASA prepares to launch the FORTIS sounding rocket, which will study far-ultraviolet light from galaxy NGC 1365 to understand how material is flowing in and…