Artist’s illustration of a small Saturn-like planet discovered in the system LkCa 15. The planet resides within dense rings of dust and gas that surround…
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Many more planets may have large amounts of water than previously thought, according to new research. However, much of that water is likely embedded in…
A habitable zone, shown in green here, is defined as the region around a star where liquid water, an essential ingredient for life as we…
The image was processed to portray the approximate colors that the human eye would see from Juno’s vantage point. Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Image processing…
Webb NIRCam composite image of Jupiter from three filters – F360M (red), F212N (yellow-green), and F150W2 (cyan) – and alignment due to the planet’s rotation.…
Mounds of snow-like frazil ice under the Antarctic ice shelf. According to research from UT Austin, Europa’s ice shell could be made of the same…
What do MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert…
A depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to grow, around 550 million years ago; third, with an…
Ius and Tithonium Chasmata on Mars. This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows Ius and Tithonium Chasmata, which form part of Mars’ Valles Marineris canyon…
A transmission spectrum made from a single observation using Webb’s Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) reveals atmospheric characteristics of the hot gas giant exoplanet…
Artist impression of the pulsar-planet system PSR B1257+12 detected in 1992. The pulsar and three radiation-doused planets are all that remains of a dead star…
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Kevin M. Gill Jovian Vortex Hunter, a new NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
Seen are six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, one of the…
An artist’s impression of the early solar system. Credit: Tobias Stierli / Flaeck / PlanetS The solar system’s chaotic early stages An international team of…
Low-mass planets with a primordial atmosphere of hydrogen and helium might have the temperatures and pressures that allow water in the liquid phase. The presence…
The joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission captured this view of Mercury on June 23, 2022, as the spacecraft flew past the planet for its second of…
The MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert world…
Artist’s illustration of uninhabitable conditions during the Hadean, an early geologic eon of Earth history. Credit: Alec Brenner Zircons (and the Secrets They Hold) Are…
Billions of years ago, a river flowed across this scene in a Mars valley called Mawrth Vallis. A new study examines the tracks of Martian…
Southwest Research Institute scientists combined data from NASA’s New Horizons mission with novel laboratory experiments and exospheric modeling to reveal the likely composition of the…