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Taken from the International Space Station in 2016, this picture of the southern tip of Greenland shows the island's vast ice sheet fringed by...

Titan is Saturn's largest moon. Its cloudy appearance comes from an atmosphere mixed with gaseous nitrogen and hydrocarbons. Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ Cassini Orbiter The...

Most of the known volcanic hotspots are linked to plumes of hot rock (red) rising from two spots on the boundary between the metal...

Astronomers have identified 18 extreme mass-ratio binaries in a neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, pictured here. The more massive stars weigh 6...

NIST has combined a laser instrument that 'combs' the air with a flying multi-copter to scan and map atmospheric gases over kilometer distances. Credit: NIST Researchers...

This is a radio image of a very young binary star system, less than about 1 million years old, that formed within a dense...

Here's an illustration of Echeclus, which UCF researcher Gal Sarid and USF professor Maria Womack are studying. Credit: Florida Space Institute at UCF Scientists pursue research...

Left: Image of the Whirlpool galaxy and NGC 5195. Credit: Jon Christensen. Right: False colour image of NGC 5195 created by combining the VLA...

The Little Cub galaxy (circled) which is being stripped of gas by its larger neighbor. Credit: SDSS Collaboration A primitive galaxy that could provide clues about...

Image of Enceladus with the location of a possible confined methanol cloud, the methanol spectrum from the study and images of the methanol molecule. A...

Ginkgo fossil. Credit: Stephen McLoughlin For the first time, researchers have succeeded in establishing the relationships between 200-million-year-old plants based on chemical fingerprints. Using infrared spectroscopy...