Venus and Mercury Pair Up in Twilight For the next week, the two closest planets to the Sun will shine together low in the twilight after sundown. Anyone can see them; they’ll form an eye-catching …[READ MORE]
Phobos Flyby Images Released Images from the recent close flyby of Mars’ moon Phobos, which took place on March 7, were released March 15. The images show the rocky, irregular-shaped moon in exquisite detail, with …[READ MORE]
Astronomically Large Lenses Measure Age and Size of the Universe Using entire galaxies as lenses to look at other galaxies, researchers have a newly precise way to measure the size and age of the Universe …[READ MORE]
Cassini Finds Plethora of Plumes, Hotspots at Enceladus Newly released images from last November’s swoop over Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft reveal a forest of new jets spraying from prominent fractures crossing …[READ MORE]
A diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first images NASA released last week from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, an automated infrared telescope in Earth orbit. Since WISE began its …[READ MORE]
Close Encounters of the Phobos Kind The Mars Express spacecraft, which has been orbiting the Red Planet since 2004, recently began a series of close flybys of Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons. The …[READ MORE]
Imaging Pluto’s White, Dark-Orange, and Charcoal-Black Terrain NASA has released the most detailed and dramatic images ever taken of the distant dwarf planet Pluto. The images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show an icy, mottled, …[READ MORE]
Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Trailing Debris NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers have long thought the …[READ MORE]
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