When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The mysterious face of Pluto is beginning to yield some of its secrets in this stunning ...

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 ...

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 ...

The NASA Earth Observatory has just posted a very powerful false-color image of the flooding that resulted from opening the Morganza spillway last week. The reason for the false-color in this imagery ...

A raging storm on Saturn , larger and stronger than any previously observed by NASA's two Voyager flybys or the currently operating Cassini orbiter, has now been captured in new false-color image s. A ...

Spikey, ridged scales reduce drag in swift-swimming sharks, while thicker, rounder scales offer protection from abrasion. The three-pronged scale on top may serve a defensive function. False color ...