Artist’s conception of Planet Nine. Credit: Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC) The Solar System has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified PlutoPluto is a dwarf planet in…
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During its first operating cycle, the James Webb Space TelescopeThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement…
The image is an illustration made by Amanda Smith of the 193cm telescope at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence which was used for this research. This…
False-color image of impact recrystallized phosphate mineral in Chelyabinsk meteorite. Credit: Craig Walton A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout…
Rugged surface: Numerous large, striking craters are found on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres. Credit: © MPS, based on data from the Dawn mission:…
The Curiosity rover took a picture of something pretty enticing this week on the surface of MarsMars is the second smallest planet in our solar…
Artist’s impression of Kepler-16b, the first planet known to definitively orbit two stars – what’s called a circumbinary planet. The planet, which can be seen…
Surface of Venus, observed by NASA’s Magellan (Magalhães) spacecraft, which mapped the entire surface of the planet using radar in the early 1990s. Evidence of…
This artist’s concept portrays the seven rocky exoplanets within the TRAPPIST-1 system, located 40 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA and JPL/Caltech Five years ago, astronomers…
This artist’s impression shows a rocky exoplanet with a wispy, cloudy atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf star. Credit: L. Hustak and J. Olmsted (STScI) The…
Study provides new perspective on Washington state’s Channeled Scablands, carved by the Missoula megafloods at the end of the last ice age. As ice sheets…
Landscape near Hooke Crater in Mars’ southern highlands captured by the CaSSIS camera onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) on February 1, 2021. Credit:…
This oblique perspective view of the Jovis Tholus shield volcano on Mars was generated from the digital terrain model and the nadir and color channels…
An artist’s rendering of Psyche, the largest of the metal-rich asteroids in the solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU Scientists have thought that the asteroid Psyche could…
This artist’s impression shows Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Solar System.…
This is an artist’s concept of a glow surrounding a drone at Mars during flight. The glow, exaggerated for visibility, might happen if the drone’s…
Jupiter’s southern hemisphere is shown in this image from NASA’s Juno mission. New observations by NASA’s NuSTAR reveal that auroras near both the planet’s poles…
An artist’s impression of the white dwarf star WD1054–226 orbited by clouds of planetary debris and a major planet in the habitable zone. Credit: Mark…
This artist’s impression shows a close-up view of Proxima d, a planet candidate recently found orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star…
Artist’s impression of a white dwarf, G29—38, accreting planetary material from a circumstellar debris disk. When the planetary material hits the white dwarf surface, a…