New Horizons Image Shows Pluto’s ‘Halo’ Craters
This newly released image from the New Horizons Spacecraft looks within Pluto’s informally named Vega Terra region, showing a field of eye-catching craters that looks…
This newly released image from the New Horizons Spacecraft looks within Pluto’s informally named Vega Terra region, showing a field of eye-catching craters that looks…
New data from WISE and its predecessor, the Two Micron All Sky Survey, reveals the lowest-mass free-floating object in TW Hydrae family — a likely…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has revealed marvelous sights on dwarf planet Ceres during its first year in orbit, including the mysterious bright spots in Occator Crater….
New images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft reveal that Pluto’s haze varies in brightness. Scientists on NASA’s New Horizons mission team are learning more about…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views a Y-shaped discontinuity on Enceladus’ south pole. A sinuous feature snakes northward from Enceladus’ south pole like a giant tentacle. This…
Even a super-Earth can fly too close to the sun, according to a new study from Yale University. An international team of astronomers has found…
Cassini gets a closer look at Saturn’s rings. It’s difficult to get a sense of scale when viewing Saturn’s rings, but the Cassini Division (seen…
In April 2016 the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 26th year in orbit. During this time the telescope has made many remarkable discoveries. But…
According to mission managers and orbit determination experts at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Cassini Spacecraft is not experiencing unexplained deviations in its orbit around…
Using the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered an alien planet that has three suns in its sky. Eat your heart…
Another great image of Saturn from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft. As a convention for public release, Cassini images of Saturn are generally oriented so that Saturn…
Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers reveal a planet-forming disk in unprecedented detail, revealing a series of concentric dusty bright rings and…
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn’s Moons Enceladus and Janus. When taking images in directions opposite from the sun, most objects appear dark. Surprisingly,…
Using infrared light, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope measured the extreme temperature swings of exoplanet HD 80606b. The last decade has seen a bonanza of exoplanet…
A newly published study reveals that Saturn’s moon Rhea and all other moons and rings closer to Saturn may be only 100 million years old….
This newly released image shows a frozen, former lake of liquid nitrogen, which is located in a mountain range just north of Pluto’s informally named…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory, astronomers show that solar storms trigger Jupiter’s intense ‘Northern Lights’ by generating a new X-ray aurora that is…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reveals new images from the lowest orbit at Ceres, including highly-anticipated views of Occator Crater. Occator Crater, measuring 57 miles (92 kilometers)…