Color-Enhanced Juno Image of a Massive Storm on Jupiter
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured this color-enhanced image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured this color-enhanced image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere during its ninth close flyby of the gas giant…
Spitzer reveals that super-Earth 55 Cancri e likely has an atmosphere whose ingredients could be similar to those of Earth’s atmosphere, but thicker. Twice as…
Observations from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft show that Pluto is much colder than predicted, suggesting that atmospheric haze works as a novel cooling mechanism. The…
Using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument, a team of astronomers has discovered a temperate Earth-sized planet only 11 light-years from the Solar System. The new…
On November 14, 1971, Mariner 9, the first spacecraft to orbit the Red Planet took this and other images of a Martian shield volcano, approximately…
On November 9, 1967, the uncrewed Apollo 4 test flight made a great ellipse around Earth as a test of the translunar motors and of…
This new image taken by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft shows Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in…
Scientists at the Lomonosov Moscow State University reveal the resistance microorganisms have against gamma radiation in very low temperatures. Average temperature on Mars is -63…
A new study by European and U.S. researchers shows that heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn’s moon Enceladus for billions of years…
New X-ray observations show the auroras on Jupiter behave differently at each pole, making Jupiter puzzling and unlike Saturn (no known auroras) or Earth (where…
As the Cassini Spacecraft hurtled toward its fatal encounter with Saturn, the spacecraft turned to catch this final look at Saturn’s moon Pandora next to…
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has discovered dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri. These new observations reveal the glow…
Engineers and scientists at NASA have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water…
This newly released false-color image demonstrates how use of special filters available on the Curiosity Mars rover’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) can reveal the presence of…
Planetary missions including Galileo, Cassini and Juno, and a number of spacecraft that orbit Earth, provide observations to create a comprehensive understanding of how planets…
NASA’s 2020 Mars Rover will have 23 cameras to create sweeping panoramas, reveal obstacles, study the atmosphere, and assist science instruments. When NASA’s Mars Pathfinder…
ESO’s Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) instrument at has found its first exoplanet, a hot Jupiter orbiting an M-dwarf star now named NGTS-1. The planet,…
Astronomers continue to study Cassini data on Saturn, providing us with images like this one showing the northern hemisphere from about 34 degrees above Saturn’s…