NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Still Going Strong After 15 Years
Initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its expected lifetime — and is still going strong…
Initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its expected lifetime — and is still going strong…
The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using data from the European Space Agency’s star mapping spacecraft Gaia…
A team of researchers from Waseda University, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Harvard University, and the National Institute…
The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is considered its second life. Calculations by Masafumi Noguchi (Tohoku University)…
NASA’s InSight spacecraft, en route to a November 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on August 6. All of its instruments have been…
In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon’s…
Thin ribbons of purple and white light that sometimes appear in the night sky were dubbed a new type of aurora when brought to scientists’…
Lunar masonry starts on Earth. European researchers are working with Moon dust simulants that could one day allow astronauts to build habitats on our natural…
Physicists have discovered that some of the faintest satellite galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way galaxy are amongst the very first that formed in our…
A team of scientists using the highest-frequency capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has uncovered jets of warm water vapor streaming away from…
Scientists have shown that water is likely to be a major component of those exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) which are between two to four…
MIT scientists have uncovered a sprawling new galaxy cluster hiding in plain sight. The cluster, which sits a mere 2.4 billion light-years from Earth, is…
NASA’s Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover. Now that scientists…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) scientists used their computer models to generate a view of the Sun’s magnetic field on August 10, 2018. The bright…
Ultraviolet Light Adds Missing Piece to Cosmic Puzzle Astronomers have just assembled one of the most comprehensive portraits yet of the universe’s evolutionary history, based…
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) in Spain, the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), and an International…
Exoplanets, planets in other solar systems, can orbit very close to their host star. When, in addition to this, the host star is much hotter…
The Earth’s building blocks seem to be built from ‘pretty normal’ ingredients, according to researchers working with the world’s most powerful telescopes. Scientists have measured…