The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured these views of the Lunar South Pole. Credit: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across…
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This illustration envisions the Milky Way galaxy’s gas recycling above and below its stellar disk. Hubble observes the invisible gas clouds rising and falling with…
An illustration depicting the layers of the heliosphere. Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler Planetarium Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the…
This illustration shows a tidal disruption, which occurs when a passing star gets too close to a black hole and is torn apart into a…
Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The black hole’s extreme gravity alters…
The latest view of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captures exquisite details of the ring system — which looks like a phonograph record with…
This artist’s impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. K2-18b is now the only super-Earth exoplanet known…
On September 3 at 12:05 p.m. EDT (1405 UTC) the MODIS instrument that flies aboard NASA’s Terra satellite showed areas northeast and southeast of Typhoon…
NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite passed over the western North Atlantic Ocean and captured a visible image of Tropical Storm Dorian approaching the Leeward Islands on…
NOAA/NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite collected this natural-color image using the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument on August 21, 2019. Smoke from the fires…