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This frame from an artist animation depicts the life of a photon, or particle of light, as it travels across space...
Astronomers using NASA Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that such quasar winds might have forged these dusty...
This zoomed-in image from the High-Resolution Instrument on NASA EPOXI mission spacecraft shows the particles...
A shepherd moon can do more to define ring structures than just keep the flock of particles in line, as Cassini...
The sensor head on the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer instrument was installed during testing at NASA Jet...
The Global Precipitation Measurement can help improve numerical weather predictions of snowfall by measuring the...
Peeking over the crescent of Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft views the towering plume of ice particles erupting...
How precisely do the size of the aerosol particles comprising the dust that obscured the Red Sea on July 26, 2005?...
A large coronal hole has been spewing solar wind particles in the general direction of Earth over the past few days...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured evidence of a solar storm's charged particles arriving at the Martian surface...
This illustration shows Earth surrounded by filaments of dark matter called "hairs," which are proposed in a study...
jsc2025e036184 (4/4/2025) --- Airborne particles collected in the US Orbital Segment during the Aerosol Sampling...
Scientists studying what amounts to a computer-simulated “pulsar in a box” are gaining a more detailed understanding...
ISS038-E-029767 (13 Jan. 2014) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 38 commander, uses the Remote Control...
As NASA Terra satellite flew over Iceland erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano, its Multi-angle Imaging...
The Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk, or GOLD, instrument launches aboard a commercial communications...
Though close to home, the space immediately around Earth is full of hidden secrets and invisible processes. In a new...
This is a rare glance at the dark side of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Light backscattered from dust particles...
This image shows the location of the 150-micrometer sieve screen on NASA Mars rover Curiosity, a device used to...
This graphic shows the flux of radiation detected by NASA Mars Science Laboratory on the trip from Earth to Mars;...
This image from NASA Dawn spacecraft shows a relatively smooth part of asteroid Vesta surface. This smooth texture...
This view shows Prometheus with a streamer it has created in the inner edge of the F ring. Prometheus comes close to...
MAVEN's Extreme Ultraviolet instrument (EUV) is tested at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The...
This illustration depicts potential origins of methane found in the plume of gas and ice particles that sprays from...