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 ...

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 ...

False color images of Saturn's moon, Mimas, reveal variation in either the composition or texture across its surface. During its approach to Mimas on August 2, 2005, the Cassini narrow angle camera ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) was designed to capture images of some of the most gargantuan structures in the universe — and a new observation just pushed it to its limits. In a study published in ...

I have a colleague who is severely colorblind (and several others who have the more common kind of colorblindness). In our field of work we work with images such as these: As you can hopefully imagine ...