Artist’s impression of the Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. These plumes are much like geysers and…
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Dust devils on Mars are small whirlwinds of dust that occur when the sun heats the surface of the planet, causing the air to rise…
The 2013 Chelyabinsk meteorite caused a series of shock waves that damaged 7,200 buildings, broke windows, and injured 1,500 people. Its characteristics may help to…
The impact crater, which was caused by an impact even around 8 million years ago, is about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) in diameter. The crater…
Artist’s rendering of the surface of LHS 3844b, a planet that has been found to have no atmosphere. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) Study reports on…
Lost in the glare following the Apollo 11 Moon landing, two intrepid robotic spacecraft flew by Mars in the summer of 1969 and returned photographs…
This artist’s illustration shows an alien world that is losing magnesium and iron gas from its atmosphere. The observations represent the first time that so-called…
This diagram shows the layout of the GJ 357 system. Planet d orbits within the star’s so-called habitable zone, the orbital region where liquid water…
This infographic illustrates key features of the TOI 270 system, located about 73 light-years away in the southern constellation Pictor. The three known planets were…
Illustration of L 98-59b, the smallest exoplanet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Ravyn Cullor NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey…
A permanently shadowed lunar crater. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The Moon’s south pole region is home to some of the most extreme environments…
An image of the tenuous atmosphere of Pluto, backlit by the Sun, as taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Astronomers beginning to study the atmospheres…
The roof of the tunnel is covered in hoar frost, spiky ice crystals that form as moisture in the air solidifies in the minus 6…
Robin Wordsworth is one of the researchers studying how Mars may be made livable. Kris Snibbe/Harvard file photo People have long dreamed of altering the…
This artist’s illustration shows the theoretical internal structure of the exoplanet GJ 3470 b. It is unlike any planet found in the Solar System. Weighing…
Illustration of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the…
A false-color, near infrared view of Titan’s northern hemisphere collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft showing the moon’s seas and lakes. Orange areas near some of…
An artist’s depiction of the stellar system Kepler-9 and two of its planets. Astronomers have confirmed the very low densities of two of Kepler-9’s planets…
Comparison images of Mars taken by Hubble (left) and showing a global dust storm that engulfed it (right). Astronomers studying dust storms in the Aonia-Solis-Valles…
10 million years ago, Saturn’s moons moved inwards, opening up the Cassini Division. In 40 million years’ time, the moons will have moved out far…