This enhanced color view of Jupiter’s cloud tops was processed by citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson using data from NASA's JunoCam on the Juno spacecraft. A counterclockwise rotating storm appears as a white oval in the gas giant's southern hemisphere. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Bjorn Jonsson) At a Glance Atmospheres on other planets are oddly familiar to Earth's.Winds on most planets are 2 to 5 times stronger than Earth's.Distant worlds rely on their warm cores, rather than the sun, to produce weather. Storms on other...

A vast, deep pit found on Mars by a NASA orbiter defies explanation. ...

Astronomers say the sun may have had a twin. They call it Nemesis because it may have played a part in killing off the dinosaurs. ...

NASA has unveiled it's newest rover concept vehicle which looks very much like the batmobile. It could be used to drive around on Mars someday. ...

The illustration above depicts exoplanets. NASA’s Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near-Earth size and exist in the habitable zone of their star. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) At a Glance More than 200 new planet candidates have been discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope.Ten of the planets are almost the size of the Earth. NASA scientists Monday announced that more than 200 new planet candidates have been identified during its exoplanet-hunting Kepler mission. , 10...

Did you know you were actually made of stars? A look at that and other mind-blowing scientific facts. ...

The blue dot circled in this photo is NASA's Curiosity rover, which was photographed June 5 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/University of Arizona) As it went about its mission to catalog the landscape of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently captured a familiar, if tiny, sight – NASA's Curiosity rover. A photo taken June 5 by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) aboard the Reconnaissance Orbiter dwarfed by the harsh terrain. The car-sized vehicle...

A “potentially hazardous” asteroid is slated to zoom by Earth on June 24. ...

A look at the clouds released by NASA's Terrier-Improved Malemute rocket. (NASA Wallops Flight Facility/Twitter) Early risers from New York to North Carolina got an early Independence Day fireworks displayThursday, courtesy of NASA. At 4:25 a.m., from Wallops Flight Facility on the Virginia coast. A few minutes into its 8-minute flight, it released 10 small canisters containing a colored vapor that formed blue-green and red luminescent clouds. The payload later splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 90 miles from...

NOAA satellite captures epic solar eruption. ...

The sun is entering a new phase called the “solar minimum” when there will be relatively few solar flares. ...

An experimental solar panel is ejected from the International Space Station after it fails to retract. ...