NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Captures a New View of Saturn
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Saturn from above. Saturn appears as a serene globe amid tranquil rings in this view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. In reality,…
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NASA Shows Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming Summers
New research shows that the Arctic sea ice has been hit with a double whammy over the past decades: as its extent shrunk, the oldest…
NASA GRAIL Mission Provides Insights into Moon Impacts
Astronomers are using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission to provide new insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history…
10 Years of Revolutionary Solar Views from NASA’s STEREO Mission
Ten years ago the twin STEREO spacecraft joined a fleet of NASA spacecraft monitoring the sun and its influence on Earth and space – and…
Cassini Views Saturn’s Dynamic Atmosphere
Astronomers are using Saturn’s clouds to study fluid dynamics, which seeks to understand the motion of gases and liquids. Saturn’s lack of a solid planetary…
Astronomers Reveal That Uranus May Have Two Undiscovered Moons
New research suggests that there could be two previously undiscovered moonlets orbiting near Uranus’ rings. Rob Chancia, a University of Idaho doctoral student, spotted key…
Kepler Helps Show What Conditions Might Look Like on Various Hot Jupiters
Data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope and computer modeling show an approximation of what various hot Jupiters might look like. The weather forecast for faraway,…
MAVEN Mission Provides Unprecedented Ultraviolet View of Mars
New images from the MAVEN mission show the ultraviolet glow from the Martian atmosphere in unprecedented detail, revealing dynamic, previously invisible behavior. They include the…
Cassini Views a Lonely Moon of Saturn
This new Cassini image shows Saturn’s moon Pandora in isolation beside Saturn’s kinked and constantly changing F ring. Pandora (near upper right) is 50 miles…
LRO Spacecraft Reveals Earth’s Moon Hit by Surprising Number of Meteoroids
A newly published study reveals that a random bombardment by comets, asteroids and associated fragments are altering the lunar surface at a higher rate than…
Astronomers Discover Density Waves in Protoplanetary Disk Surrounding Elias 2-27
Astronomers have discovered a striking spiral-arm structure in the disc of gas and dust around the young star Elias 2-27. The structure is made up…
Scientists Predict the Next Global Dust Storm on Mars
Based on a historical pattern, scientists believe they can predict the occurrence of dust storms on Mars. Global dust storms on Mars could soon become…
Hubble Spots Possible Water Plumes Erupting on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Suspected Water Plumes Shown Erupting From Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa New findings from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show suspected water plumes erupting from Jupiter’s icy…
NASA Research Reveals That Mercury is Active
New research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Images obtained by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry,…
Hubble Finds a Planet Orbiting Pair of Stars in System OGLE-2007-BLG-349
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of a planet orbiting two stars in the system OGLE-2007-BLG-349, located 8,000…
Evidence of Surprising Activity on Europa
NASA will host a teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT Monday, September 26, to present new findings from images captured by the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope…
Astronomers Examine Dicyanoacetylene Ice in Titan’s Stratosphere
New research examines the appearance of a cloud of dicyanoacetylene ice in Titan’s stratosphere. The puzzling appearance of an ice cloud seemingly out of thin…
CfA Astronomers Confirm and Characterize Exoplanet K2-33b
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics take a closer look at migrating exoplanets. Many known exoplanets orbit close to their host star, within one-tenth…