Young Giant Planet Offers Clues to Formation of Exotic Worlds
This animation shows a type of gas giant planet known as a hot Jupiter that orbits very close to its star....
Satellites Have Drastically Changed How We Forecast Hurricanes
Satellites Have Drastically Changed How We Forecast Hurricanes
NASA Observes Large Saharan Dust Plume Over Atlantic Ocean
On June 18, 2020, NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this visible image of the large light brown...
Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long
Composite image of Centaurus A, showing the jets emerging from the galaxy’s central black hole, together with the associated...
Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Cosmic Clock
lasts of radiation detected every 16 days, which could help explain mysterious bursts of energy from...
Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It’s Likely, NASA Scientists Find
This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft flying through plumes on Enceladus in October 2015.
Stunning New Hubble Images Reveal Stars Gone Haywire
Stunning New Hubble Images Reveal Stars Gone Haywire
NASA’s IBEX Charts 11 Years of Change at Boundary to Interstellar Space
As the Sun wades through the interstellar medium, it generates a hot, dense wave like the wave at the front of a...
