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Researchers used NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity to find a water-related mineral on the ground that had been...
This enhanced color composite image from Dawn's visible and infrared mapping spectrometer shows the area around...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was first detected by the agency's...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was first detected by the agency's...
The areas where high-energy X-rays were detected by NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) from the...
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of a meteoroid impact that was later associated with a...
A team of astronomers has made the first detection ever of an organic molecule in the atmosphere of a Jupiter-sized...
This frame from a sequence of four images taken during one night of observation by NASA's Catalina Sky Survey near...
Pegasus-1, meteoroid detection satellite, installed on Saturn I (SA-9 mission) S-IV stage, January 13, 1965. The...
These two images show tacked Chandra images for two different classes of distant, massive galaxy detected with NASA...
The purple color in this animated GIF shows auroras across Mars' nightside as detected by the Imaging Ultraviolet...
This artist's concept shows a cutaway of Mars along with the paths of seismic waves from two separate quakes in...
In this photograph, the Pegasus, meteoroid detection satellite is installed in its specially modified Apollo service...
This image is an artist's conception of the Pegasus, meteoroid detection satellite, in orbit with meteoroid detector...
The SA-9 (Saturn I Block II), the eighth Saturn I flight, lifted off on February 16, 1965. This was the first Saturn...
The active volcano Prometheus on Jupiter moon Io was imaged by NASA Galileo spacecraft during the close flyby of Io...
Test engineers clean the ice cloud detection probe in the Icing Research Tunnel in between test runs. Steam is used...
Marjorie Sovinski looking for the presence of chromium, which would help confirm that the exterior of the film had a...
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected widespread deposits of glacial ice in the mid-latitudes of Mars. This...
Fairchild technicians check out the extended Pegasus meteoroid detection surface. The Pegasus was developed by...
The existence of exomoons (moons around planets outside our solar system) has long been theorized, but their...
Taken in 1997, NASA Hubble Space Telescope, using visible light, detected clouds in the northern hemisphere of Uranus.
Calcium was detected in the near-Mercury exosphere by NASA MESSENGER spacecraft and has also been observed...
This artist image illustrates Kepler-16b, the first directly detected circumbinary planet, which is a planet that...