But the "bauble" is not decorative at all — it is Manicouagan crater in the Canadian province of Quebec, a remarkably ...

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 ...

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 ...

Image sources (clockwise from left): Victor Blacus via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA 2.5), Bill Schoening, Vanessa, Harvey/REU program/NOAO/AURA/NSF, NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona), ...

Well, it’s September, and many of you have already decorated for fall (maybe even for Halloween). Taking a stroll through your yard, or maybe one of the beautiful hiking areas in the Ozarks, you come ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This false-color space wallpaper shows the volcano Sapas Mons, which is located in the broad ...

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 ...

Image Credit: Far-infrared: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Hill, Motte, HOBYS Key Programme Consortium;X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger This close up ...