This colorful web of wispy gas filaments is the Vela Supernova Remnant, an expanding nebula of cosmic debris left over from a massive star that exploded about 11,000 years ago.

Transit zones for all solar system planets are plotted in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates (left) and in celestial coordinates (right). Each planet’s transit zone is shown as a colored sinusoidal band.

SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project that looks for technosignatures in data recorded at the Arecibo Observatory. The data were collected over a period of 14

A clay-rich mesa in the Hellas basin of Mars. The blue color near the rim is aluminum bearing clays. The red-orange color below that is iron and magnesium bearing clays.

Impact history should play a crucial role in the search for habitable exoplanets like Earth — SwRI An SwRI-led team compared the early impact history of Venus and Earth, determining

The Antarctic midge is the only known insect native to Antarctica. Credit Yuta Shimizu / Osaka Metropolitan University Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there