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View larger. | NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft took this image of part of Jezero crater from orbit. The enhanced colors highlight various mineral deposits. Here, you can clearly

This is an animation of the January 2017 Jupiter heatwave. Scientists used spectroscopic data from the Keck II Telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to create the heat map. It is

View larger. | Various observations of Uranus by the Hubble Space Telescope over the 20-year period from 2002 to 2022. The findings yield new insights into Uranus’ atmosphere and how

Watch this video about a surprising galaxy that was able to shine through the fog of the early universe. The early universe was filled with a thick fog of neutral

Want to see the Blaze Star go nova? X marks the spot! Astronomers said an impending nova will give the constellation of the Northern Crown – Corona Borealis – an

Artist’s illustration of an asteroid approaching Earth. The ATLAS telescope discovered an asteroid on December 25, 2024, that – as of January 27, 2025 – has 1-in-83 odds of hitting

View larger. | Artist’s concept of the exoplanet – a world orbiting a distant star – called GJ 1214 b. Previously thought to be a watery “super-Earth,” or a mini-Neptune

Here’s one of the newly imaged exocomet belts, around the star HD216956. The new study found exocomet belts – regions where comets likely exist or will exist – around 74

A map showing the stark difference between Mars’ southern highlands, in yellows and oranges, and northern lowlands, in blues and greens. New analysis of marsquakes could explain this difference. Captured

Best animation of our Milky Way galaxy The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft launched in 2013 and spent more than a decade measuring and mapping our home galaxy, the Milky