Extensional faults (arrows) on the surface of Pluto indicate expansion of the dwarf planet’s icy crust, attributed to freezing of a subsurface ocean. Credit: NASA/Johns…
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How’s the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in…
(Click image for full view.) Credit: NASA/JPL/SwRI/MSSS; image processing by Gerald Eichstädt NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at Jupiter’s tumultuous northern regions during the…
The red planet. Earth-based experiments on iron-sulfur alloys thought to comprise the core of Mars reveal details about the planet’s seismic properties for the first…
An SwRI scientist modeled the climate of Mars to understand if hydrated salts or brines on the surface of the Red Planet could harbor life.…
High-resolution images of Saturn’s Hexagon obtained by the Cassini spacecraft. Credit: UPV/EHU High-resolution images obtained by the Cassini spacecraft were used for this purpose by…
Channel-forms preserved in sedimentary strata in the Hellas Basin on Mars. These well-exposed channels are archived evidence of long-lived rivers active on the Martian surface…
To the human eye, Mercury may resemble a dull, grey orb but this enhanced-color image from NASA’s Messenger probe, tells a completely different story. Swathes…
Venus – Computer Simulated Global View Centered at 90 Degrees East Longitude. Credit: NASA/JPL Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus’s atmosphere rotating…
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover, expected to launch in July 2020, will land in Jezero crater, pictured here. The image was taken by instruments on NASA’s…
Akatsuki: surveying lightning emission in Venus’ sea of clouds and observing cloud layers on the horizon (by Akihiro Ikeshita). A conceptual image of Akatsuki observing…
Clash of Titans: This artist’s illustration depicts the collision of two 125-mile-wide icy, dusty bodies orbiting the bright star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away. Credit:…
Uranus is uniquely tipped over among the planets in our Solar System. Uranus’ moons and rings are also orientated this way, suggesting they formed during…
This false-color composite image shows auroras (depicted in green) above the cloud tops of Saturn’s south pole. The 65 observations used here were captured by…
This is an artist’s impression of the newly discovered object. Credit: Ko Arimatsu For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km radius…
University of Arizona researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars’ chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean.…
Voyager 2 took this image as it approached the planet Uranus on January 14, 1986. The planet’s hazy bluish color is due to the methane…
Model developed by Brazilian researchers shows chaotic phase that placed objects in current orbits beginning within first 100 million years after formation of giant planets.…
Despite Mercury’s daytime Vulcan heat, there is permanent ice at the poles, according to data and images from a NASA probe that visited Mercury in…
This updated catalog of trans-Neptunian objects and the methods used to find them could aid in future searches for undiscovered planets in the far reaches…