Powerful Lunar Dynamo’s Demise: The End of the Moon’s Magnetic Field
Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core. A conventional compass would be of little use on…
Findings suggest the moon’s magnetic field was produced by the fallout of a crystallizing iron core. A conventional compass would be of little use on…
A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — has revealed that the ‘cores’ of massive galaxies…
What are the skywatching highlights of January 2020? The peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower, Mars rises with its “rival” — the red giant star…
Center of milky way galaxy stitched together by new wavelength data. Deep in our Milky Way galaxy’s center, a candy cane emerges as the centerpiece…
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. It is also the brightest planet at radio frequencies. While radio astronomy often focuses on more…
Black holes are one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. Here are five things to know! A black hole is a single point…
A study supported in part by the NASA Astrobiology Program provides new insight into the potential habitability of stellar systems that contain giant planets in…
NASA mission named for pioneering University of Chicago scientist produces landmark research. Last summer, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe split the predawn skies in a blaze…
The Space Station has grown to the size of a football field and space agencies are looking to extend its lifetime until 2030. European-built computers…
Two Ancient Migration Events in Galaxy Next Door Astronomers have uncovered two historic events in which the Andromeda Galaxy underwent major changes to its structure….
This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust, and stars is a moderately luminous spiral galaxy named ESO 021-G004, located just under 130 million light-years away….
“Super-Puffs” may sound like a new breakfast cereal. But it’s actually the nickname for a unique and rare class of young exoplanets that have the…
Built in 1961, the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is the cradle of robotic space exploration. The first probes…
A team of astronomers has produced a new image of an arc-shaped object in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The feature, which resembles…
Scientists applied a set of algorithms to laser-ranging telescopes and succeeded in increasing accurate detection of the space litter in Earth’s orbit threatening spacecraft safety….
The fact that our Universe is expanding was discovered almost a hundred years ago, but how exactly this happens, scientists realized only in the 90s…
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a young star surrounded by an astonishing mass of gas. The star, called 49 Ceti, is…
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed the first land touchdown of a human-rated capsule in U.S. history Sunday at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico,…