Strange lumpy terrain on Pluto unlike anything previously observed in the solar system indicates that giant ice volcanoes were active...
Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars’ southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet’s orientation...
Using data from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC), researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam...
Scientists studying V Hydrae (V Hya) have witnessed the star’s mysterious death throes in unprecedented detail. Using the Atacama Large...
Unlike our Milky Way, some galaxies have an active black hole in their center driving powerful outflows of gas. But...
If life is abundant in the universe, atmospheric methane may be the first sign of life beyond Earth detectable by...
It takes expensive tools to learn about the universe, but projects like the Very Large Array for radio astronomy in...
The inner nebula of the much-studied supernova Cassiopeia A is not moving smoothly outward. This has been discovered by astronomers...
To document large-scale transformations on Earth, such as waning ice sheets and shifting coastlines, geoscientists often use views from space...
The number of sunspots on our sun typically ebbs and flows in a predictable 11-year cycle, but one unusual 70-year...
It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks...
Solar Orbiter’s latest images shows the full sun in unprecedented detail. They were taken on 7 March, when the spacecraft...
