Hubble Detects Stratosphere on Distant Planet WASP-33b
Using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, a team of researchers has detected a stratosphere on the planet WASP-33b. A stratosphere occurs when molecules in the atmosphere absorb…
Using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, a team of researchers has detected a stratosphere on the planet WASP-33b. A stratosphere occurs when molecules in the atmosphere absorb…
New images taken on June 6, 2015, get a closer look at the mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres. New images of dwarf planet…
Newly detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars could provide details into the possibility of past life on the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars…
This sixth video in a series celebrating Hubble’s 25th anniversary explains how Hubble has helped scientists study exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, as…
Based on observations of Ceres that were taken from NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft, a new animated video reveals a unique perspective of this heavily cratered, mysterious…
This new image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a 1-kilometer-wide impact crater in the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars. The High Resolution Imaging Science…
New research provides important constraints on the sequence of events that led to the formation of the Pluto system, revealing the resonant interactions and chaotic…
New computer simulation techniques suggest that crashing comets are responsible for the formation of lunar swirls on the Moon. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) —…
Astronomers believe glowing aurorae of blue, with red and green hues, would be visible to astronauts walking on Mars. For the first time, an international…
This new image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows finer details of the dwarf planet Ceres. The spacecraft snapped the image at a distance of 3,200…
This newly released Cassini image shows the surface of Saturn’s moon Rhea. Gazing off toward the horizon is thought-provoking no matter what body’s horizon it…
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft show the closest view to date of the mysterious bright spots on Ceres. NASA’s Dawn mission captured a sequence…
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft collected low-altitude magnetic field measurements during its orbital decay, revealing that magnetism generated by the Mercury’s core dates to the very early…
Seventy days worth of solar system observations from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, taken during its reinvented “K2” mission, are highlighted in this sped-up movie. The planet…
A newly published NASA study reveals that the last remaining section of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf is weakening and will likely to disintegrate completely…
New research from NASA reveals that the dark material coating some geological features of Jupiter’s moon Europa is likely sea salt from a subsurface ocean,…
The Large Binocular Telescope provides the first detailed observations of a lava lake on Jupiter’s moon Io. With the first detailed observations of a lava…
A new sequence of images taken by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows the mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken on…