Latest images of Ceres show detail of bright spot
New images of the dwarf planet Ceres, taken from 2,700 miles above by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, show the surface of…
Dark matter could be the wild card in extinction events
Our planet’s long path around and through the Milky Way means that dark matter could be the ultimate wild card…
Stunning photos of comet 67P at the end of Rosetta’s decade-long journey
After a 10 year journey, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has rendezvoused with the 2.5 mile-wide comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko…
New analysis reveals hidden planetary disks
The two images at top reveal debris disks around young stars uncovered in archival images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space…
Newly discovered dwarf planet hints at a much larger not-yet-seen planet
2012 VP113, a newly discovered dwarf planet (pictured) in the distant Oort cloud region of our Solar System indicates the…
Solar wind creating interplanetary rain
Scientists have discovered that when tiny interplanetary dust particles are battered by the solar wind, the ion bombardment can free…
Water vapor plumes observed erupting from dwarf planet
The Herschel space observatory has used its far-infrared capabilities to capture a clear spectral signature of water vapor venting from…
First exoplanet images from Gemini
After nearly a decade of development, construction, and testing, the world’s most advanced instrument for directly imaging planets around other…
Sol System “Pretty Special,” Say Astronomers
Existing models that attempt to explain the formation of the solar system have assumed it to be average in every…
Solar System In A Hole
The first detailed map of space within about 1,000 light years of Earth places the solar system in the middle…