Cassini Spacecraft Gets Close-Up of Saturn’s Moon Prometheus
This newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft reveals the surface of Saturn’s moon Prometheus. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of…
This newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft reveals the surface of Saturn’s moon Prometheus. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spied details on the pockmarked surface of…
This newly released Cassini image shows Tethys dwarfed by Saturn and its rings. Tethys, dwarfed by the scale of Saturn and its rings, appears as…
Using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer Space telescopes, astronomers have discovered the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years…
This newly released composite image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows an infrared view of Saturn’s moon Titan. This new image was acquired during the mission’s…
New images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft are the sharpest views of Pluto it obtained during its July flyby – and the best close-ups of…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7252, which is located in the Aquarius constellation. Only rarely does an astronomical object have a…
This new image from the New Horizons Spacecraft demonstrates the ability of the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager to capture distant objects in motion. NASA’s…
This new Hubble image shows the elliptical galaxy NGC 2768. Like a lighthouse in the fog, the luminous core of NGC 2768 slowly fades outwards…
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter views the Apollo 16 S-IVB impact site on the moon. After decades of uncertainty, the Apollo 16 S-IVB impact site on…
ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory celebrate twenty years of space-based science. After 20 years in space, ESA and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 2768, which is located 60 million light-years away. Like a lighthouse in the fog, the luminous…
Using NASA’s Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, new research suggests that unusual light signals from star KIC 8462852 are likely from dusty comet fragments, which…
This newly released Cassini image was taken during the flyby of Dione this past summer. Saturn’s rings are so expansive that they often sneak into…
Using data from the NEOWISE Space Telescope, astronomers have gained new insights into the dust and production rates for difficult-to-observe gases like carbon dioxide and…
A new study proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, called “hairs,” which are created when a stream of dark matter particles goes…
This new image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the group of galaxies nicknamed the “Cheshire Cat.” X-rays from Chandra show that the two “eye”…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy 2MASX J16270254+4328340, which is located in the Hercules constellation. This curious galaxy — only known by the seemingly…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has captured images of Pluto and Charon completing the rotation of a full day. Pluto’s day is 6.4 Earth days long….