ETH Astronomers Identify Six ‘Dark Galaxy’ Candidates
Based on new observational data, an international team led by ETH astronomers identified at least six candidates for ‘dark galaxies’ — galaxies that have a…
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NASA Image of the Day – GRACE-FO Mission Liftoff
The GRACE-FO, or Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On, mission lifted off on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Air…
VIMOS’s Final Image – Interacting Galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427
Two spiral galaxies are locked in a spellbinding, swirling dance in this image from the VIMOS instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). The two…
NASA’s GRACE-FO Spacecraft Ready to Launch
Twin satellites that will monitor Earth’s water cycle are scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Central California on Tuesday, May 22, in…
Astronomers Discover Asteroid Captured from Another Star System
A new study has discovered the first known permanent immigrant to our Solar System. The asteroid, currently nestling in Jupiter’s orbit, is the first known…
Orbital ATK Mission to Space Station Contains New Experiments for Astronauts
Astronauts soon will have new experiments to conduct related to emergency navigation, DNA sequencing and ultra-cold atom research when the research arrives at the International…
Orbital ATK Antares Rocket Successfully Lifts Off
The Orbital ATK Antares rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Monday, May 21, 2018 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital…
Hubble Image of the Week – Between Local and Laniakea
At first glance, this image is dominated by the vibrant glow of the swirling spiral to the lower left of the frame. However, this galaxy…
Juno Spacecraft Captures Extraordinary View of Jupiter
This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet. This…
NASA’s TESS Planet Hunter Snaps Initial Test Image
NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is one step closer to searching for new worlds after successfully completing a lunar flyby…
Orbital ATK Rocket Rolls Out in Advance of a May 21 Launch
An Orbital ATK rocket rolls out to launch Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on May 17, 2018, in advance of a May 21 launch…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Will Test Percussive Drilling on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover could soon be drilling rocks on Mars again. Engineers have been working for the past year to restore the rover’s full drilling…
K2 Mission Discovers a New Kind of Supernova
The K2 Mission, an extension of the immensely successful NASA Kepler mission to search for exoplanets, has itself discovered nearly one hundred new exoplanets so…
Hubble Telescope Reveals the Local Universe in Ultraviolet
Using the unparalleled sharpness and ultraviolet observational capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has created the most comprehensive high-resolution…
KPS-1b: First Transiting Exoplanet Discovered Using Amateur Data
One of the candidates previously found by the Kourovka Planet Search (KPS) project turned out to be the so-called hot Jupiter. The exoplanet, known as…
Astronomers Reveal Evidence of Stars Forming Just 250 Million Years After Big Bang
Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to determine that star formation in the very…
Astronomers Discovered Unusual Laser Emission in Ant Nebula
An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of…
New Map Provides Unprecedented Detail of the Orion A Molecular Cloud
A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth’s Sun. The maps provide unprecedented…