Molecular emission lines from mysterious icy objects captured by the ALMA telescope. The background image is an infrared composite color map, where 1.2-micron light is shown in cyan and 4.5-micron ...

The icy surface of Jupiter 's moon Europa appears to be constantly changing, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed. This phenomena, the team explained, is heightened in so-called ...

The background shows: Layton Patterson takes a bite of snow along with her younger sister, Ella, during an icy winter storm, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Kingwood.

New stereo images of Ganymede, the solar system's largest satellite, suggest that eruptions of water or slushy ice a billion or more years ago gave parts of the moon a facelift, creating long ...

Talk about a parting shot! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft ends its mission in late 2017, but not before it took one more look at Saturn’s moon Dione -- and sent back some stunning close-ups.

The images captured by the visible light camera aboard the Juno spacecraft, the JunoCam, reveal show the fractures, ridges, and bands that crisscross the moon’s surface in great detail.

Jupiter background image: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight ... Seen as blue-colored areas in the VLT image, the icy regions of Ganymede include its polar ice caps and craters where ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft completed its close flyby of Jupiter’s moon Europa on Thursday, and the first images from the maneuver have now arrived on Earth for your viewing pleasure.

Jupiter’s icy moon may be the next place humans find life, but first, they need to understand the structure of the moon WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes planetary physics is like being in a snowball ...

WASHINGTON (WJZ)—Icy plains, soaring mountains, an atmosphere blowing into space. Alex DeMetrick reports, those are just the very early findings from this week's flyby of Pluto, by a spacecraft ...

Nasa’s latest images of Europa could help set up the Europa Clipper mission of the 2030s, which in turn could help scientists determine whether the moon hosts life Jump to content US Edition Change ...