NASA Contacts Voyager 2 – 11.6 Billion Miles From Earth – Using Upgraded Deep Space Station
The only radio antenna that can command the 43-year-old spacecraft has been offline since March as it gets new hardware, but work is on track…
Space News
Hubble Spots a Gorgeous Waterfall of Stars
The galaxy UGCA 193, seen here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is a galaxy in the constellation of Sextans (The Sextant). Looking rather like…
Astrophysicists Solve Mystery of How Dark Matter Is Distributed in Galaxies
The gravitational force in the Universe under which it has evolved from a state almost uniform at the Big Bang until now, when matter is…
Secrets of Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan Revealed by Impact Craters
New research on nine craters of Saturn’s largest moon provides more details about how weathering affects the evolution of the surface — and what lies…
Astronomers Discover Activity on Distant Centaur Planetary Object
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails…
Intriguing Martian Scars: An Ancient Crater Triplet on Mars
Mars is covered in intriguing scars – some of the most prominent being impact craters. A particularly unusual example is shown in this new image…
An Additional Planet Between Saturn and Uranus Was Kicked Out of the Solar System
Where were Jupiter and Saturn born? New work led by Carnegie’s Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine…
Research Shows NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Reveal Hidden Galaxies
Two new studies from the University of Melbourne will help the largest, most powerful, and complex space telescope ever built to uncover galaxies never before…
NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins Casts Her Vote from Space
NASA astronaut Kate Rubins points to the International Space Station’s “voting booth” where she cast her vote from space this month. This is actually Rubins’…
Creepy Night Aboard the Space Station
Night aboard the International Space Station can seemingly look like every spooky sci-fi movie you’ve ever seen. This image shows two empty spacesuits seemingly colluding…
Exploring the Cosmos’ Fundamental Mysteries: New CubeSat Will Observe the Remnants of Massive Supernovas
Scientists at CU Boulder are developing a satellite about the size of a toaster oven to explore one of the cosmos’ most fundamental mysteries: How…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to Examine Objects in the Solar System Graveyard
These icy bodies are the leftovers from planet formation. In the distant reaches of the solar system lies a region called the Kuiper Belt. Beyond…
Testing Lunar 4G Operations to Support Future Moon Exploration
4G is coming to the Moon, to help support future international exploration efforts. To check the feasibility of this vision, the ESA-VSC High Power Radio…
Signs of Life on Venus? What This Means for Earthlings
University of Delaware professors from astronomy, international relations, and psychology say what signs of life on Venus means for earthlings. The planet Venus has arguably…
Stars and Skulls: Eerie Nebula Revealed in Astounding Detail
This ethereal remnant of a long dead star, nestled in the belly of The Whale, bears an uneasy resemblance to a skull floating through space….
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory “Flaming Jack-o’-Lantern” Sun for Halloween
Active regions on the sun combined to look something like a jack-o-lantern’s face on October 8, 2014. The active regions appear brighter because those are…
“Growth Spurt” in the Early Universe: Galaxies in the Infant Universe Were Surprisingly Mature
Massive galaxies were already much more mature in the early universe than previously expected. This was shown by an international team of astronomers who studied…
First Ultra Hot Neptune – LTT 9779b – Is One of Nature’s Improbable Planets
International team including University of Warwick astronomers discovers a new class of planet, the Ultra Hot Neptune The planet was found in the Neptunian Desert,…