Coccolithophores are a group of phytoplankton that are identifiable from space. These microscopic plants armor themselves with external plates of…
Scientists report definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane on Saturn's moon Titan, based on the…
Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system, with volcanoes that erupt massive volumes of silicate lava,…
Looking more like an alien landscape than an Earthly landscape, the Morenci open-pit copper mine in southeast Arizona is North…
This Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) thermal-infrared composite image, the first high spatial resolution multi-spectral thermal infrared…
In a view from 1965, the full moon is out dazzled by the lights of the launch gantries on Missile…
A detail of the Eagle Nebula shows a portion of a pillar of gas and dust in this photo from…
The largest canyon in the Solar System cuts a wide swath across the face of Mars. Named Valles Marineris, the…
In this stunning vista recorded with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, distant galaxies form a dramatic backdrop…
This image of the western part of the city of Pasadena, Calif. - home to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory -…
