To Avoid Freezing to Death, NASA’s Juno Prepares to Jump Jupiter’s Shadow
Last night, NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver — extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as…
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Eerie Sounds on Mars Picked Up by NASA’s InSight Lander [Audio/Video]
Put an ear to the ground on Mars and you’ll be rewarded with a symphony of sounds. Granted, you’ll need superhuman hearing, but NASA’s InSight…
More Interstellar Objects – Strange, Icy Visitors From Other Planets – Are Coming
Gregory Laughlin and Malena Rice weren’t exactly surprised a few weeks ago when they learned that a second interstellar object had made its way into…
Record Breaking Observations Link Dark Matter to Galaxy Formation
An international team of astronomers with participation by researchers from DAWN, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has discovered a protocluster of galaxies 13.0 billion…
Astronomers Discover Massive Galaxy Surrounded by an Unexpected Halo of Tranquil Gas
Astronomers studying the outskirts of a distant galaxy have discovered the galaxy sits in a serene ocean of gas. The massive galaxy, which is about…
Starry Region Bursting With Bubbles and Bow Shocks Spotted by Spitzer
This infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are inflated by wind and radiation…
Scientists Trace Supermassive Black Hole and Galaxy Co-Evolution in Romulus Simulation [Video]
Some relationships are written in the stars. That’s definitely the case for supermassive black holes and their host galaxies, according to a new study from…
Supermassive Black Hole Rips Apart a Star in Rare Tidal Disruption Event
Washington, DC — NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has for the first time seen the aftermath of a star that was violently ripped apart…
WFIRST Space Telescope Fitted for ‘Starglasses’ [Video]
When a new NASA space telescope opens its eyes in the mid-2020s, it will peer at the universe through some of the most sophisticated sunglasses…
Faster Than the Speed of Light: New Model Proposes Jets Go Superluminal in Gamma-Ray Bursts
Astrophysicists Jon Hakkila of the College of Charleston and Robert Nemiroff of the Michigan Technological University have published research indicating that blasts that create gamma-ray…
Galaxy’s Tranquil Halo Illuminated by Enigmatic Radio Burst [Video]
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for the first time observed that a fast radio burst passed through a galactic halo. Lasting less than…
NASA Designing Advanced Shapeshifting Robots for Saturn’s Moons [Video]
Mini robots that can roll, fly, float and swim, then morph into a single machine? Together they form Shapeshifter, a developing concept for a transformational…
This Mysterious Exoplanet Should Not Exist
Astronomers detected a giant planet orbiting a small star. The planet has much more mass than theoretical models predict. While this surprising discovery was made…
Planet Formation Theory Challenged by Massive Exoplanet Orbiting Tiny Star
Astronomers have discovered a giant Jupiter-like exoplanet in an unlikely location — orbiting a small red dwarf star. The newly identified gas giant, designated GJ…
New Models Show There Are Many Gas Giant Exoplanets Waiting to Be Discovered
There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions. Washington, DC — There is an as-yet-unseen population…
Hubble Tracks a Galaxy Moving Toward Us at Over 543,000 Miles Per Hour
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy Messier 86. Despite its being discovered over 235 years ago by astronomer Charles Messier,…
Forget Star Wars – See a Real Life “Star Destroyer” in Action
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the immediate aftermath of a star being violently ripped apart by a supermassive black hole. The observations were…
Astronomers Discover the Oldest Galaxy Protocluster & It Features a Mythological Queen
Using the Subaru, Keck, and Gemini Telescopes, an international team of astronomers has discovered a collection of 12 galaxies that existed about 13.0 billion years…