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A big shadow from Saturn largest moon darkens the planet in the lower right of this image taken by NASA Cassini...
The moon Mimas casts a shadow and creates a single blemish on the kingly crescent of Saturn. Mimas is not shown in...
Like great friends, galaxies stick together. Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a handful...
Nili Fossae, once considered a potential landing spot for the Mars Science Laboratory, has one of the largest, most...
This map shows the distribution of dark materials throughout the southern hemisphere of the giant asteroid Vesta....
These images, taken on February 19, 1997 by NASA Galileo orbiter, show two of the three long-lived White Ovals that...
These images, taken on February 19, 1997 by NASA Galileo orbiter, show two of the three long-lived White Ovals that...
The blue dot in this image marks the spot of an energetic pulsar -- the magnetic, spinning core of star that blew up...
From on high, the Cassini spacecraft spots a group of faint spokes against the striped landscape of the B ring, the...
This MOC image shows some a modest-sized meteor impact crater in the Elysium Planitia region of Mars. The dark spot...
This image taken with the Palomar Observatory Hale Telescope, shows the light from three planets orbiting a star 120...
These images, taken on February 19, 1997 by NASA Galileo orbiter, show two of the three long-lived White Ovals that...
Janus is spotted over Saturn north pole in this image while Mimas shadow glides across Saturn in this image from...
This Mars MOC image shows dunes in the north polar region of Mars covered by a layer of carbon dioxide frost that...
This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows the western rim of Azacca Crater on Ceres. A smaller impact feature sits...
Magenta spots in this image from NASA NuSTAR show two black holes in the Circinus galaxy, located 13 million...
This image composite outlines the region near Orion sword that was surveyed by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope white...
A brilliant spot of sunlight, the opposition effect, travels outward across the rings as the Cassini spacecraft...
The Context Camera aboard NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter discovers new dark spots on Mars that, upon closer...
These images, taken on February 19, 1997 by NASA Galileo orbiter, show two of the three long-lived White Ovals that...
The bright cirrus-like clouds of Neptune change rapidly, often forming and dissipating over periods of several to...
The mosaic shows NASA Curiosity rover at Rocknest, the spot in Gale Crater where the mission first scoop sampling...
Following the path of one of Jupiter jet streams, a line of v-shaped chevrons travels west to east just above...
This artist concept based on data fromNASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows delicate greenish crystals sprinkled...