This artist’s rendition shows how a Mars lidar could be deployed on a landed mission to Mars. Credit: NASA Insights and technology gleaned from creating…
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This is an image of the ultraviolet “nightglow” in the Martian atmosphere. Green and white false colors represent the intensity of ultraviolet light, with white…
An updated model suggests the shape of the Sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere (seen in yellow), may be a deflated croissant shape, rather than…
NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is now named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA’s first Chief of Astronomy. Credit: NASA When…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope have found a young Neptune-size world orbiting AU Microscopii, a cool, nearby M-type dwarf…
This animation shows a series of views of the Sun captured with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) on ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter on May 30, 2020.…
This image based on data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft shows the face of the Moon we see from Earth. The more we learn…
This illustration shows how planet KELT-9 b sees its host star. Over the course of a single orbit, the planet twice experiences cycles of heating…
The 4,000th comet discovered by ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s SOHO observatory is seen here in an image from the spacecraft alongside SOHO’s 3,999th…
[embedded content] Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset…
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this image of the Bighorn Fire on June 22,…
This composite image is made from 151 individual SDO frames. They span the full ten-year run of the time lapse and a few notable events…
This illustration shows NASA’s Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes on Enceladus in October 2015. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Several years ago, planetary scientist Lynnae Quick began to…
Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March…
Knicole Colon, astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, seen with the James Webb Space Telesocpe at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, California. Credit:…
Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX). Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy contours of…
Examples of disaggregation (top) and linear fractures (bottom) in boulders on asteroid Bennu from images taken by NASA’s OSIRIS-REX spacecraft. In the bottom row, fracture…
Technicians inspect a critical part of the James Webb Space Telescope known as the Deployable Tower Assembly after fully extending it in the same maneuver…
The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resembles a glittering fireworks display in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The sparkling centerpiece of this…
NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory Watches Comet ATLAS As Solar Orbiter Crosses Its Tail
Credit: Comet ATLAS swoops by the Sun. Credit: NASA/NRL/STEREO/Karl Battams NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO-A spacecraft, captured these images of comet ATLAS as…