The three main weather patterns on Venus. Researchers think the dayside poleward circulation and newly discovered nightside equatorial circulation may fuel the planetwide super-rotation that…
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Artist’s impression of the internal structure of Mars. Credit: © IPGP / David Ducros Using information obtained from around a dozen earthquakes detected on Mars…
False-color image of the Martian meteorite nicknamed “Block Island.” This image was taken with the panoramic camera of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on July…
This image, taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), shows wide (left) and close-up (right) views of the moon-forming disc surrounding PDS 70c, a…
NASA’s Juno Mission observed pulsating electromagnetic ion cyclotron waves in Jupiter’s dawn magnetosphere that periodically expel energetic heavy ions into the atmosphere, producing stunning X-ray…
When the Sun evolves to become a red giant star, the Earth may be swallowed by our star’s atmosphere, and with a much more unstable…
SuperBIT: A Low-Cost Telescope To Rival Hubble – Carried by a Balloon the Size of a Football Stadium
SuperBIT: A Low-Cost Telescope To Rival Hubble – Carried by a Balloon the Size of a Football Stadium
A SuperBIT optical and ultraviolet composite image of the ‘Pillars of Creation’, trunks of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years away…
Hubble Space Telescope image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 2020, providing the sharpest view to date of the breakup of the…
Artist’s depiction of a neutron star. Credit: ESO / L. Calçada New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions…
Composition of images of Centaurus A in the optical range (ESO/WFI) and X-rays (NASA/CXC/CfA). Centaurus A is a massive galaxy that is in the process…
Galaxy cluster MACSJ0138.0-2155 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Newman, M. Akhshik, K. Whitaker The center of this image from…
Artist’s impression of the HD265435 system at around 30 million years from now, with the smaller white dwarf distorting the hot subdwarf into a distinct…
Image from a MAYA collaboration numerical relativity simulation of an NSBH binary merger, showing the disruption of the Neutron Star. Credit: Deborah Ferguson (UT Austin),…
Testing teams can be seen carefully working a critical part of the observatory known as the deployable tower assembly that helps Webb maintain its sub-zero…
A star in a distant galaxy blew up in a powerful explosion, solving an astronomical mystery. Dr. Iair Arcavi, a Tel Aviv University researcher at…
This image combines observations of the nearby galaxies NGC 1300, NGC 1087, NGC 3627 (top, from left to right), NGC 4254 and NGC 4303 (bottom,…
NASA has identified the possible cause of the payload computer problem that suspended Hubble Space Telescope science operations on June 13. The telescope itself and…
The purple hues in this image show X-ray emissions from Jupiter’s auroras, detected by NASA’s Chandra Space Telescope in 2007. They are overlaid on an…
Thanks to data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international collaboration of astronomers has identified four exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, orbiting…
Artist’s illustration of our solar system’s asteroid belt. Credit: NASA/McREL Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of…