NASA’s Mars Exploration Program seeks to understand whether Mars was, is, or can be a habitable world. Missions like Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory and Mars ...
A constellation map from Harmonia Macrocosmica, a star atlas written by Andreas Cellarius and published in 1660 by Johannes Janssonius. [Credit: pictureboxblue.com]
Frederik de Wit was a Dutch cartographer of the 1600s who created this fantastic celestial map of the night sky, illustrating the tremendous creatures hidden in the stars. [Credit: ...
Discovered in October 2013 using direct imaging, PSO J318.5-22 belongs to a special class of planets called rogue, or free-floating, planets. Wandering alone in the galaxy, they do not ...
A beautifully illustrated map from the early 18th century showing the world and the heavenly bodies that surround it. The Latin title is “The site of earth surrounded by ...
Twice as big in volume as the Earth, HD 40307g straddles the line between “Super-Earth” and “mini-Neptune” and scientists aren’t sure if it has a rocky surface or one ...
The poster is from NASA’s “Visions of the Future” series, created to spark interest in space exploration. The theme is a unique journey through the outer planets of our ...
Frigid and alien, yet similar to our own planet billions of years ago, Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, has a thick atmosphere, organic-rich chemistry and a surface shaped by rivers ...
Some 40 light-years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST-1e offers a heart-stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. ...
The rare science opportunity of planetary transits has long inspired bold voyages to exotic vantage points – journeys such as James Cook’s trek to the South Pacific to watch ...
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