An Asteroid’s Surface in Fine Detail

A new video from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. The data obtained by Dawn’s framing camera, used to [...]

Strange Magnetic Bubbles at the Edge of the Solar

A gem from NASA Heliophysics and the Science Visualization Studio. The sun’s magnetic field spins opposite directions on the north and south poles. These oppositely pointing magnetic fields are separated [...]

How an Asteroid Got a Rooster Tail

“The dust cloud around Scheila could be 10,000 times as massive as the one ejected from comet 9P/Tempel 1 during NASA’s UMD-led Deep Impact mission,” said co-author Michael Kelley, also [...]

Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Hab

Find out, in 1080p, where to look for Extraterrestrial Life. What planets are likely to have the right conditions? And what makes Earth special? So far, in this age of [...]

Ice Volcano on Titan

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn’s moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock. Topography and surface composition data [...]