NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf 200 Trillion Miles Away
Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their atmospheres could help us understand giant planets around other stars….
Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their atmospheres could help us understand giant planets around other stars….
Study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard raises doubts about basic assumption for the universe. No matter where we look, the same rules apply…
A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging…
At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy, with two pinwheeling arms emerging from…
Fast Facts A supermoon occurs when the moon’s orbit is closest (perigee) to Earth at the same time it is full. So what’s so special…
They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental ‘variety’—sulfur—is indeed a ‘spice’…
As NASA marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission – which has become known as “a successful failure” that saw the safe return of…
Carefully wrapped inside this donut-shaped bag is a 35-m (115-ft) diameter parachute that will endure a frenzied six-minute dive into the Martian atmosphere. This qualification…
The next full Moon is the Pink Moon, Sprouting Grass Moon, Egg Moon, Fish Moon, the Pesach or Passover Moon, Paschal Moon, Hanuman Jayanti, Bak…
Uranus’ strange axis of rotation and the unusual properties of its moons and ring system are likely due to an ancient giant icy impact. The…
New mapping of the giant planet’s upper atmosphere reveals likely reason why it’s so hot. The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants —…
For the first time ever, astronomers have detected a 1.3 km (o.8 mi) radius body at the edge of the Solar System. Kilometer-sized bodies like…
NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at Jupiter’s tumultuous northern regions during the spacecraft’s close approach to the planet on February 17, 2020. Some notable…
A RUDN University physicist has developed a formula for calculating Hawking radiation on the event horizon of a black hole, which allows physicists to determine…
‘Curious and Curiouser!’ – Meteorite Chunk Contains Unexpected Evidence of Presolar Grains An unusual chunk in a meteorite may contain a surprising bit of space…
Joint teams from NASA and SpaceX continue making progress on the first flight test with astronauts to the International Space Station by completing a series…
High-resolution imaging reveals black hole’s hideout in extra-galactic star cluster. Like detectives carefully building a case, astronomers gathered evidence and eliminated suspects until they found…
Shining New Light on Dark Matter: Kathryn Zurek talks about the ongoing search for an invisible substance that permeates the galaxy. About 80 percent of…