Scientists Search for Dust Storm Secrets on Mars
Side-by-side movies shows how dust has enveloped the Red Planet, courtesy of the Mars Color Imager (MARCI) camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The…
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Astronomers Reveal Unified Model for Galactic Discs: Star Formation, Turbulence Driving, and Mass Transport
Chandra Reveals First Evidence of Young Star RW Aur A Devouring a Planet
Astronomers Reveal Fine-Grained Structures in the Sun’s Outer Corona
Six New Infrared Images of Saturn’s Moon Titan Are the Clearest Views To Date
Astronomers Discover a Dozen New Moons Around Jupiter, Including One ‘Oddball’
Published Study Shows Algae Using Raw Plants as a Carbon Energy Source
ESO’s VLT Captures Remarkably Sharp Test Images of Neptune
Landsat 8 Views Striking Patterns of Blue and Green in the Chukchi Sea
“Ghostly Particle” is Confirmed to Have Originated From a Blazar
The “ghostly particle” is confirmed to have originated from a blazar, nearly 4 billion light years from Earth. For the first time, scientists from around…
Scientists Suggest New Treatment for Rare Inherited Cancers
Studying two rare inherited cancer syndromes, Yale Cancer Center (YCC) scientists have found the cancers are driven by a breakdown in how cells repair their…
New Test for Alzheimer’s Disease Directly Measures Synaptic Loss
Yale researchers have tested a new method for directly measuring synaptic loss in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease. The method, which uses PET imaging technology to…
Spitzer Space Telescope Views the Explosive Merger of Two Neutron Stars
Launched nearly 15 years ago on August 25, 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope is the final mission in NASA’s Great Observatories Program – a family…
Dawn Mission Continues to Gather Data in Home Stretch
Pasadena Conference to Include New Insight into Dwarf Planet Ceres As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft prepares to wrap up its groundbreaking 11-year mission, which has included…
Scientists Reveal Diamond Cache Deep in Earth’s Interior
New study shows that 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond. There may be more than a quadrillion tons of diamond…
Astronomers Record The First Microlensing Event Only Detected By Spitzer
The path of light from a star as it passes by a massive body, like an exoplanet, will be bent and an observer looking towards…
VERITAS Confirms Neutrino Emission from Vicinity of Blazar TXS 0506+056
The VERITAS array has confirmed the detection of gamma rays from the vicinity of a supermassive black hole. While these detections are relatively common for…
Hubble Image of the Week – Galaxy Cluster SDSS J1336 0331
At first glance, it may seem as though this image was taken through a faulty lens, but the mind-bending distortions visible in this Hubble Wide…