NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is providing the images for the Mars cloudspotting project. Like Earth, Mars has clouds. NASA wants to harness your cloudspotting skills for a citizen-science project aimed at ...

NASA’s longest-running Mars mission has sent back an unprecedented side view of a massive volcano rising above the Red Planet, just before dawn. On May 2, as sunlight crept over the Martian horizon, ...

According to astronomers, these types of aging stars produce large amounts of cosmic dust and spread it into space.

For much of his career, George Tselioudis, a researcher at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has analyzed decades of satellite observations to understand where clouds occur, whether their ...

The cosmos often surprises us, but rarely does it present two such monumental, simultaneous mysteries as the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and the solar system's silent entry into a dense galactic ...

A pyrocumulus cloud, or "fire cloud," erupts from the Line Fire in San Bernardino County, as viewed in a NASA Landsat satellite image on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Images from a NASA satellite show a ...

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Clouds usually come in chaotic, shifting forms that look like cotton balls, dragons, or even your favorite cartoon character if you squint just right. But in 2014, NASA's Terra satellite captured a ...

A peculiar, motionless cloud near New Zealand's southern coast has caught NASA's attention. Earlier this year on September 7th, NASA's Landsat 8 Earth observation satellite captured an unusual ...

NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter captured the first horizon view of Arsia Mons, an enormous volcano on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU NASA’s longest-running Mars mission has sent back an ...