Artist impression of BepiColombo flying by Mercury. The spacecraft makes nine gravity assist maneuvers (one of Earth, two of Venus, and six of Mercury) before…
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An artist’s concept of a “hot Jupiter” extrasolar planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Astronomers discover a new way of determining the relative age of exoplanets and prove…
NASA’s DAVINCI mission will study the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in unprecedented detail from near the top of the clouds to the…
A newly processed image of Venus compiled using data from the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech How much do you know about the…
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft captured these views of Uranus (on the left) and Neptune (on the right) during its flybys of the planets in the…
Artist’s concept of a sun-like star (left) and a rocky planet about 60% larger than Earth in orbit in the star’s habitable zone. Gravitational microlensing…
These dark streaks, also known as “slope streaks,” resulted from dust avalanches on Mars. The HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured them on…
Illustration showing what exoplanet 55 Cancri e could look like, based on current understanding of the planet. 55 Cancri e is a rocky planet with…
Photos of boulders on Mercury were taken by the American automatic interplanetary space probe MESSENGER. Credit: NASA Scientists received new information about the conditions on…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured images of a mound of rock on Mount Sharp called “East Cliffs” that features a fracture that resembles a doorway.…
Researchers led by the University of Iowa have learned how a type of aurora on Mars is formed. In a new study, the physicists report…
Martian surface frost, made up largely of carbon dioxide, appears bluish-white in these images from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera aboard NASA’s 2001…
An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars. InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is designed to give…
Hubble’s 2021 images of Jupiter track the ever-changing landscape of its turbulent atmosphere, where several new storms are making their mark. Credit: NASA, ESA, A.…
This artist’s impression shows the super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e in front of its parent star. 55 Cancri e is about 40 light-years away and…
Left: Optical image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Right: SOFIA image of Jupiter demonstrating the variation in its brightness temperature with latitude.…
Unusual ridge networks on Mars may provide clues about the history of the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Caltech Murray Lab/Esri Scientists have uncovered strange ridge networks…
Pluto 180° Longitude. Pluto was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006. Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute) A…
All stars, including our sun, are born from a cloud of dust and gas. This cloud can also seed planets that will orbit the star.…
A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the…