Illustration of Saturn and its rings. All of the outer gas giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus — have rings around them. Planets…
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An artist’s impression of the planet Janssen, which orbits its star so closely that its entire surface is a lava ocean that reaches temperatures of…
Artist’s impression of an active mantle plume – a large blob of warm and buoyant rock – rising from deep inside Mars and pushing up…
An asteroid collision may have caused a Martian megatsunami approximately 3.4 billion years ago. New research has identified an impact crater that could have resulted…
An artist’s concept of active volcanos on Venus, depicting a subduction zone where the foreground crust plunges into the planet’s interior at the topographic trench.…
This oblique perspective view of Tithonium Chasmata, which forms part of Mars’ Valles Marineris canyon structure, was generated from the digital terrain model and the…
An illustration of the Martian interior. Credit: Dr Sheng Wang and Professor Hrvoje Tkalcic/ANU A new method to scan the deep interior of planets in…
Color-coded topographic view shows the relative heights of features in Cerberus Fossae: reds and whites are relatively higher than blues and purples. The image is…
Artist’s impression of massive impact with proto-Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech According to a new scientific assessment, a peculiar property of the Earth’s magnetic field could help…
Wavefield simulation. The first observation of surface waves on Mars reveals details of planet’s crust. Credit: ETH Zurich, Doyeon Kim, Martin van Driel, and Christian…
Chaotic Crust Contains Clues to Mars’ Watery Past in Search for Signs of Past Life on the Red Planet
Holden Basin on Mars. This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows a portion of the Uzboi-Ladon-Morava (ULM) outflow system, which may have once drained up…
Artist’s illustration of a young red dwarf stripping away a planet’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI) Planets orbiting the most common star…
Low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
Artist impression of an ultra fluffy gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf star. A gas giant exoplanet [right] with the density of a marshmallow…
A panning-view of Jupiter’s upper atmospheric temperatures, 1000 kilometers above the cloud tops. Jupiter is shown on top of a visible image for context. In…
Dwarf planet Ceres is shown in these false-color renderings, which highlight differences in surface materials. Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft were used to create a…
Artist’s impression of a BEASTie. The image shows a gas giant planet (like Jupiter) on a distant orbit around a blue, massive star. The planet…
Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of Neptune, taken on July 12, 2022, brings the planet’s rings into full focus for the first time in more…
This view of Jupiter’s turbulent atmosphere from NASA’s Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet’s southern jet streams. Citizen scientist Tanya Oleksuik created this color-enhanced…