New Vortex Coronagraph at Keck Observatory Delivers First Images
A new device on the W.M. Keck Observatory has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star, and separately, a…
A new device on the W.M. Keck Observatory has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star, and separately, a…
This newly released HiRISE image shows dunes on the surface of Mars during the Martian northern summer. This dune field formed near the base of…
A new study on polygon-forming ridges on Mars examines the Medusae Fossae region straddling the planet’s equator and similar-looking networks in other regions of the…
Engineers developed the model as part of its Space Weather Modeling Framework, which is the first “first principles” model to simulate CMEs including their magnetic…
Using a spinning table and a massive garbage can, new experiments simulated Jupiter’s swirling winds in the laboratory for the first time. The results demonstrate…
This new image from HiRISE shows the layered bedrock in the volcanic plains of Lunae Planum. The layered bedrock in this image was brought from…
This High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) image reveals the changing dunes of Wirtz Crater on Mars. The large dark feature is a classic Martian…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft gets a closer look at one of Saturn’s icy moons (Tethys). Tethys, one of Saturn’s larger icy moons, vaguely resembles an eyeball…
New SOFIA observations show the true composition of Ceres, revealing that it does not appear to have the carbon-rich surface composition that telescopes previously indicated….
A new NASA video uses more than 100 images taken by the New Horizons Spacecraft to reveal a trip to Pluto’s informally named Sputnik Planitia….
This new Cassini image features one of Saturn’s small moons. The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made…
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn in a way no Earth-based telescope ever could. No Earth-based telescope could ever capture a view quite like…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has examined slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud. “Mud cracks are the…
A newly published study provides a list of habitable zone exoplanet candidates from the Kepler Data Release 24 Q1-Q17 data vetting process. In our solar…
Using data from Juno’s JunoCam instrument, citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko created this image of a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot. The image…
On January 14, 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn’s hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft,…
By analyzing minerals brought back by the 1971 Apollo mission, a new study from UCLA shows that the moon is 40 million to 140 million…
This newly released Cassini image shows Herschel Crater on Saturn’s Moon Mimas, revealing an indication of the size of the crater’s towering walls and central…