This view of Mars was created from about 1,000 Viking Orbiter images.Credit: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, U.S. Geological Survey
Berkeley Lab research, shock experiments show how mineral found in Martian meteorites may provide clues to ancient abundance of water
Mars may...
This artist's concept shows what each of the TRAPPIST-1 planets may look like, based on available data about their sizes, masses and orbital distances.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away,...
This is an artist impression illustrating a supermassive black hole with X-ray emission emanating from its inner region (pink) and ultrafast winds streaming from the surrounding disk (purple).Credit: The European Space Agency (ESA)
Gas outflows are common features of active...
NGC 5907 ULX is the brightest pulsar ever observed. This image comprises X-ray emission data (blue/white) from ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, and optical data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (galaxy and foreground stars)....
A 3-D visualization of reconstructed dark matter clump distributions in a distant galaxy cluster, obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope Frontier Fields data. The unseen matter in this map is comprised of a smooth heap of dark matter on...
An image of a protoplanetary disk, made using results from the new model, after the formation of a spontaneous dust trap, visible as a bright dust ring. Gas is depicted in blue and dust in red.Credit: Jean-Francois Gonzalez
Planets are...
In the heart of an active galaxy, matter falling toward a supermassive black hole generates jets of particles traveling near the speed of light.Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
When the universe was young, a supermassive black...
Hunting for habitable exoplanets now may be easier: Cornell University astronomers report that hydrogen pouring from volcanic sources on planets throughout the universe could improve the chances of locating life in the cosmos.
Planets located great distances from stars freeze...
The white dwarf is the burn-out core of a star that was probably similar to the Sun, the brown dwarf is only ~60 times heavier than Jupiter, and the two stars go around each other in only a bit...
This is a solidified lava flow over the side of a crater rim of Elysium.Credit: NASA HiRISE image, David Susko, LSU
Mars' mantle may be more complicated than previously thought. In a new study published in the Nature-affiliated journal Scientific...
MAMMOTH-1 is an extended blob of gas in the intergalactic medium called an enormous Lyman-alpha nebula (ELAN). The color map and contours denote the surface brightness of the nebula, and the red arrows show its estimated spatial extent. Credit:...
