NASA's Car-Sized Rover Nears Daring Landing on Mars

NASA's most advanced planetary rover is on a precise course for an early August landing beside a Martian mountain to...
Hubble Sees the Needle Galaxy, Edge-on and Up Close

This image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals an exquisitely detailed view of...
NASA/NOAA Satellite Sees Western U.S. High Mountain Blazes

This interactive shows two Suomi NPP images of the Little Bear Fire.
Big Sunspot 1520 Releases X1.4 Class Flare With Earth-Directed CME

This image from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the sun at 12:45 PM EDT on...
Flying thermometers

Sea-surface temperature in the southern Atlantic and Indian oceans surrounding Africa and Madagascar. High temperatures are...
Dark Galaxies of the Early Universe Spotted for the First Time

Dark galaxies are small, gas-rich galaxies in the early Universe that are very inefficient at forming stars.
Hubble Discovers a Fifth Moon Orbiting Pluto

A team of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is reporting the discovery of another moon orbiting the icy dwarf...
The Titanian Seasons Turn, Turn, Turn

Images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show a concentration of high-altitude haze and a vortex materializing at the...