ESA’s Gaia Satellite Discovers Billion-Year-Old River of Stars
Astronomy & Astrophysics published the work of researchers from the University of Vienna, who have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical…
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Scientists Use Acoustic Waves to Monitor Stiffness of Living Cells
TRAPPIST-1 Exposed to Heavy Bombardment of Charged Particles
Hubble Image of the Week – A Storm is Coming
New Project Seeks to Replicate the Cradle of Life
Chandra Solves the Universe’s “Missing Mass” Problem
Hubble Captures Herbig-Haro Objects of a Newborn Star
Merging Neutron Stars Provide Insight Into Fundamental Properties of Matter
New NASA Mission Will Explore the Origins of Universe
Scientists Reveal Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars
A study published last year in the journal Science suggested liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. Now, a new…
ESO Image of the Week – Worlds With Many Suns
This week’s Picture of the Week highlights another of the 20 images to come out of ALMA’s first Large Program, the Disk Substructures at High Angular Resolution Project (DSHARP)….
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Begin Final Phase of Exploration
Two tough, resilient, NASA spacecraft have been orbiting Earth for the past six and a half years, flying repeatedly through a hazardous zone of charged…
New Dinosaur Species Discovered in Mongolia, Gobiraptor Minutus
A new oviraptorosaur species from the Late Cretaceous was discovered in Mongolia, according to a study published in February 6, 2019 in the open-access journal…
Dengue Immunity Provided Protection Against Zika Virus
When the Zika virus arrived in the Americas in early 2015, it struck hard, infecting 73% of people in one Brazilian community at the epicenter…
HiRISE Spots Sand Dunes Near Nili Patera on Mars
In this image many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and are called “barchan dunes.” They are formed by the continuous…
New HiRISE Image Reveals The Red Planet’s Layered History
The geologic history of a planet is written in its layers. Erosion of the surface reveals several shades of light toned layers, likely sedimentary deposits,…
Hubble Image of the Week – Adding to Uranus’s Legacy
One of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s many scientific objectives is to study the planets within the Solar System — and in past years, our…
Latest Discoveries From Zwicky Transient Facility, Supernovae, Stars, and More
The results are rolling in from Caltech’s newest state-of-the-art sky-surveying camera, which began operations at the Palomar Observatory in March 2018. Called the Zwicky Transient…