Uranus photos reveal planet in flux
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Uranus is not the static, boring orb once thought, new pictures of the planet by the Keck II telescope in Hawaii reveal. The sharpest photos ever of the planet from a ground-based telescope show storm clouds
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DARMSTADT, Germany -- The  first pictures revealing the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan, were shown from  Europe's Huygens probe, showing what look like drainage channels on the surface  of what until today has been a planet totally hidden from view.
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The observations by NASA&#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope, linking with previous data from European satellites, demonstrated that the dust clouds in these proto-planetary disks did not steadily fade away over a few million years.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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By The Associated Press. Photographs taken by a spacecraft orbiting Mars indicate that active volcanoes may still exist on the planet, a finding that further erodes its image as a dead
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UC Davis -- A new method for looking at the composition of comets using ground-based telescopes has been developed by chemists at UC Davis. Remnants from the formation of our solar system, the makeup of comets gives clues about how the Earth and other planets formed...
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The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider.
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of molecules in their atmospheres.
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BEIJING, Dec. 23 -- Photographs taken from an European Mars Express Orbiter hint that volcanic activities may still exist on the mysterious red planet.
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Scientists have gotten their best look ever at the composition of planets outside our solar system, but were more surprised by what they didn't see than what they did see.
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The powerful vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star.
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Interesting data has been sent by the Cassini spacecraft from Saturn back to astronomers on Earth. The results provide insight into the planet&#39;s rings and how the planet has evolved lately.
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Astronomers capture images of the rings of Uranus as they appear edge-on as viewed from Earth.
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Image: The two sides of the planet Uranus, as viewed in this composite image, by the Keck II Telescope at near infrared wavelengths.
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Giant planets and broad bands of dust swirl around seven distant stars in new images captured by two NASA telescopes, both built partly in Colorado.
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Tooling up in the hunt for aliens For the first time, astronomers have measured the composition of a planet outside the solar system, in what NASA says is a key step in its quest for extraterrestrial life.â¦
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A massive eruption of atomic oxygen from Saturnâs outer rings, seen by Cassiniâs ultraviolet camera as the spacecraft neared its destination, may be an indication that the planetâs wispy E ring is eroding so fast that it could disappear within 100