Artist's impression of super-Earth planet GJ 1132b.
Credit: MPIA
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere around the super-Earth planet GJ 1132b. This marks the first detection of an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet other than Earth itself, and thus is a significant...
This graphic illustrates how Cassini scientists think water interacts with rock at the bottom of the ocean of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, producing hydrogen gas.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Southwest Research Institute
Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons...
The Great Cold Spot was first discovered on Jupiter using observations taken of Jupiter's auroral region by the CRIRES instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The images on the left show the bright arcs of Jupiter's infrared aurora on...
Illustration of MAVEN spacecraft at Mars.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The metal ions can reveal previously invisible activity in the...
This dazzling Hubble Space Telescope photo of Jupiter was taken when it was comparatively close to Earth, at a distance of 415 million miles. Hubble reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter's clouds as arranged into bands of different...
The high- and low-pressure regions of wavenumber-5 set up in different locations during January 2014, when California was enduring a drought, and January 2017, when it was facing floods. The location of the high and low pressure regions (characterized...
A Semipalmated Sandpiper wears a geolocator that allows researchers to track its migratory movements.
Credit: B. Winn
Understanding and managing migratory animal populations requires knowing what's going on with them during all stages of their annual cycle -- and how those...
Scouring classical Japanese and Chinese literature -- together with tree ring data -- reveals new insights into auroras and other celestial phenomena of the past.
Credit: Kyoto University/NASA/TNM
Ice cores and ancient sediments can be gleaned for clues to weather and...
The distribution of galaxies in the proto-supercluster region 11.5 billion years ago (top left), and the Subaru Telescope Suprime-Cam image used in this work (right, larger image). Neutral hydrogen gas distribution is superposed on the Subaru image. The red...
Artist's conception of a loosely tethered binary planetoid pair like those studied by Fraser et al. in this work which led to the conclusion that Neptune's shepherding of them to the Kuiper Belt as gradual and gentle in nature.
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Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe the remnant of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Beyond just delivering a beautiful image, Hubble may well have traced the surviving remains of the exploded...
