Featured Image: A Twisted Solar Filament
Astronomers examine a tightly coiled rope of plasma as it moves on the solar surface.
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Featured Image: Mapping the Boundaries of a Coronal Hole
A team of scientists has tested our ability to measure “holes” in the Sun’s atmosphere, which may be a main source of the magnetic fields that fill interplanetary space.
Featured Image: A Charon-Lit View of Pluto
As New Horizons zipped past Pluto, it caught a glimpse of Pluto’s long-shadowed southern hemisphere.
Featured Image: An Asymmetric Dark Matter Halo
As the Milky Way’s largest satellite galaxy passes by, it distorts the dark matter in our galaxy — and new simulations show how.
Featured Image: Asteroid Fragments on Display
Take a moment to peek inside a carbonaceous chondrite — a stony meteorite nearly unchanged since its formation billions of years ago.
Featured Image: Landslides on a Dwarf Planet
Avalanches of fine particles on dwarf planet Ceres may help this body to retain volatile material within its surface.
Featured Image: The Challenges of Modeling an Asteroid
Shape models help us to interpret the stunning observations from a spacecraft’s recent visit to asteroid Bennu.
Featured Image: Keeping Tabs on the Quiet Sun
What heats the solar corona to enormous temperatures? The answer may lie hidden here in the quiet Sun.
Featured Image: A New Tool for Exploring the Moon
After careful testing and calibration, the Chandrayaan-2 mission is now providing valuable information about the Moon.
Featured Image: Do Planets Make Only Puffy Gaps?
In the simulated cross-section of a protoplanetary disk shown here, dust swirls around as a consequence of the recent passage of an orbiting planet.