When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mysterious face of Pluto is beginning to yield some of its secrets in this stunning ...

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The false-color mosaic shows how features on the Moon differ from each other because of its meteoric impacts and volcanic past. NASA/JPL On October 18, 1989, NASA launched the Galileo orbiter ...

New Horizons has obtained impressive new images of Pluto and its large moon Charon that highlight their compositional diversity. These are not actual color images of Pluto and Charonthey are shown ...

Flamboyant yellows, purples, blues and greens cover the surfaces of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, in new images from NASA's New Horizons space probe. The surfaces of Pluto and Charon don't ...

False-color images were all the rage 15 years ago. Back when CCDs and digital processing were new, it was exciting to redecorate the universe. No one minded. Outside of astro-purists who hated ...

NASA’s New Horizons Team has released new exaggerated color images from its space probe flyby of Pluto and its moons, highlighting differences between the surface of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon ...

The CAPP project aims to transfer key photosynthetic components from algae to plants in order to enhance crop productivity. In this false-color electron microscopy image, the pyrenoid of a green algae ...

Pluto may be tiny, but it is a huge geologic mystery. The dwarf planet has completely stumped scientists with its ice mountains, slush-spewing volcanoes, sporadic patches of craters, and unusually ...

A raging storm on Saturn , larger and stronger than any previously observed by NASA's two Voyager flybys or the currently operating Cassini orbiter, has now been captured in new false-color image s. A ...