False color image of Cassiopeia A using Hubble and Spitzer telescopes and Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
An international team of scientists has found evidence of a series of massive supernova explosions near our solar system, which showered Earth with radioactive...
In March 2016, ASTER captured the eruption of Nicaragua’s Momotombo volcano with its visible and thermal infrared bands. The ash plume is depicted by the visible bands in blue-gray; the thermal infrared bands show hot lava flows in yellow...
Ancient impacts on Mars likely enhanced climate conditions for life.Credit: NASA
The bombardment of Mars some 4 billion years ago by comets and asteroids as large as West Virginia likely enhanced climate conditions enough to make the planet more conducive...
The artistic concept shows NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T Pyle
A team of astronomers including a San Francisco State University researcher has discovered a new planet orbiting a pair of stars, the 10th "circumbinary" planet discovered by NASA's...
