ESA’s Gaia Satellite Reveals the Rate of Stellar Encounters with the Sun
The movements of more than 300,000 stars surveyed by ESA’s Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our Sun might disturb the cloud of…
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Astronomers Map Atmospheric Motion in Red Supergiant Star Antares
Astronomers have mapped the gas distribution and velocities in the atmosphere of the red supergiant star Antares, delivering insights into the fate of a star….
NASA’s Van Allen Probes Celebrate Fifth Year in Space
Launched in 2012, NASA’s Van Allen Probes are now celebrating their fifth year in space studying the Van Allen Radiation belts. Most satellites, not designed…
TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets May Have Liquid Water on Their Surfaces
New research reveals that several of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system are at the right distance from their star for liquid water to exist…
Astronomers Prepare for Juno’s Seventh Science Pass of Jupiter
Astronomers are preparing for the Juno Spacecraft’s seventh science flyby over Jupiter, which is set to occur tomorrow. NASA’s Juno Spacecraft will make its seventh…
Ultraviolet Light Could Be a Key for Life Elsewhere in the Universe
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that UV light may have played a critical role in the emergence of life…
ALMA Discovers Hidden Reservoirs of Turbulent Gas in Distant Galaxies
Astronomers have detected CH+ for the first time in the distant Universe, opening up a new window of exploration into a critical epoch of star…
Scientists Provide a Theory on How the Universe Became Filled with Light
After observing a nearby galaxy from which ultraviolet light is escaping, astronomers hypothesize that black holes may have punctured darkened galaxies and allowed light to…
NASA’s LRO Views Solar Eclipse as Seen From the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured an image of the Moon’s shadow over a large region of the United States during the total solar eclipse…
Astronomers Detect Magnetic Field in Distant Galaxy
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years…
Cassini Spacecraft Images Provide “Inside-Out” View of Saturn’s Rings
This newly released movie sequence of images from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn’s ring system. Cassini captured the images from within…
Engineers Are Working on Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE)
Scientists are working on a rover that might be able to better explore Venus. The planet’s hellish atmosphere creates pressures that would crush most submarines….
Cassini Spacecraft Views Turbulent Clouds at the Top of Saturn
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows turbulent clouds are on top of the world at Saturn. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view…
NASA’s InSight Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet
NASA’s InSight Mission will be the first mission to focus on the deep interior of Mars, boosting our understanding of how all rocky planets formed….
Hubble Image of the Week – MCG+01-38-004 and MCG+01-38-005
This Hubble image of the week shows galaxy MCG+01-38-004 and galaxy MCG+01-38-005, which are located roughly 400 million light-years away. Phenomena across the Universe emit…
Astronomers Map Vigorous Atmospheric Motion in the Red Supergiant Star Antares
A team of astronomers has constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the…
Astronomers Demonstrate a Powerful New Technique for Observing Stars
Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers provide the most detailed study yet of the Pleiades star cluster. The…
Hinode Satellite Captures August 21 Eclipse Images, Video
Credits: JAXA/NASA By assembling still images from the Hinode Solar Observation Satellite, scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan…