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The ChemCam instrument for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission uses a pulsed laser beam to vaporize a pinhead-size...
The artist concept depicts Kepler-62e, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star smaller and cooler...
This MOC image shows layered, light-toned, sedimentary rocks that have been exposed by erosion in Coprates Chasma,...
This image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows where the action is taking place in galaxy NGC 1291. The outer...
This view of the twilight sky and Martian horizon taken by NASA Curiosity Mars rover includes Earth as the brightest...
This mosaic of images from NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows surroundings of the rover location. The...
A world whose mysteries are just coming to light, Enceladus has enchanted scientists and non-scientists alike. With...
W3 is an enormous stellar nursery about 6,200 light-years away in the Perseus Arm, one of the Milky Way galaxy main...
At different locations on the surface of the same rock, scientists can use the Mast Camera Mastcam on NASA Mars...
Planck has discovered a bridge of hot gas that connects galaxy clusters Abell 399 lower center and Abell 401 top...
As Cassini watches the rings pass in front of bright red giant star Aldebaran, the star light fluctuates, providing...
NASA Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has a complex set of mirrors, or optics, that will help it...
NASA Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR...
Different wavelengths of light provide new information about the Orientale Basin region of the moon in a composite...
A white arrow marks Pluto in this NASA New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager picture taken Sept. 21, 2006....
This diagram illustrates how astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope can capture the elusive spectra of...
This Saturn equinox, captured here in a mosaic of light and dark, is the first witnessed up close by an emissary...
The gray area in center of this image is where the Dust Removal Tool on NASA Mars rover Curiosity brushed a rock...
Time is running out for the galaxy NGC 3801, seen in this composite image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer and...
The bulk of a galaxy called Messier 82 M82, or the Cigar galaxy, is seen in visible-light data captured by the...
The artist concept depicts Kepler-69c, a super-Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a star like our sun,...
NASA Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500...
This Mars Global Surveyor MGS Mars Orbiter Camera MOC image shows a portion of a field of dark sand dunes superposed...
Our sky is filled with a diffuse background glow, known as the cosmic infrared background. Much of the light is from...