This is the Corinto crater in Elysium Planitia on Mars. A new study using data from…
Category: Earth Sky
5000th comet for sun-observing SOHO spacecraft
The circled object is the 5,000th sungrazing comet discovered by the sun-observing SOHO spacecraft. It’s seen…
BREAKING! Milky Way’s black hole in new image
The European Southern Observatory released this new image of the Milky Way’s black hole today (March…
Does Jupiter’s moon Europa have a habitable ocean, or not?
View larger. | Jupiter’s ocean moon Europa as seen by NASA’s Juno spacecraft. Image via NASA/…
Ice grains from ocean moons could hold tiny traces of life
View larger. | Saturn’s moon Enceladus has a subsurface ocean of water beneath an outer ice…
Dark matter study of dwarf galaxies hints at a ‘signal’
Researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina studied nearby dwarf galaxies – like this one labeled…
Possible hycean world found by Webb telescope
View larger. | This is an artist’s concept of a hycean world. These exoplanets are thought…
Jupiter’s stormy weather on display in new Hubble images
View larger. | NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured these views (opposite hemispheres) of Jupiter’s stormy weather.…
Voyager 1 spacecraft has sent a (partly) decipherable message
Artist’s concept shows Voyager 1 against a starry background. The spacecraft, launched in 1977, is no…
Are solar storms dangerous to us on Earth?
Artist’s concept of activity on the sun traveling across space to interact with Earth’s magnetic field.…