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An anaglyph of the moving topography of Nili Patera on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Get your 3-D glasses (the red-and-green kind) ready, we’re going on a trip to Mars. Let your gaze drift across th...

False color, near infrared image of the Kappa Andromedae system, by the Subaru Telescope. Almost all of the light of the host star has been removed by the dark, software-generated disk in the center. Credit: NAOJ/Subaru/...

Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! It’s going to be a great week to study the Moon – and bright Jupiter is just begging for some quality eyepiece time. Need more? Then why don’t we study some very intere...

Bright clumps of material spotted within Saturn’s ropy F ring (NASA/JPL/SSI) Released today, this image acquired by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows some interesting structures forming within Saturn’s...

Caption: GOCE over ice. Credits: ESA – AOES Medialab Since March 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) mission, Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has been orbiting Earth. It carries ...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Universe Today’s very own John Williams at his very own Starry Critters website. Click here to read Carnival of Space #276. And if you’re interested in look...

The Leonid Meteor shower is usually notorious for the bright fireballs it can produce, but this fireball exploded with unexpected brilliance. Fortunately, an all-sky camera captured the event. NASA said there were numero...

Here’s another gorgeous timelapse by Gavin Heffernan, who returned to Joshua Tree National Park in California for his third look at the incredible night sky. “It was an epic night,” Gavin told UT, â�...

The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft is seen shortly after it landed on November 19, 2012 with the Expedition 33 crew. Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls. The Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft carrying Expedition 33 Commander Suni Williams and Fl...