NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft Identifies Age of Ceres’ Brightest Spot
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute have determined the age of the bright material on Ceres, revealing that it is roughly four million years old….
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute have determined the age of the bright material on Ceres, revealing that it is roughly four million years old….
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology. The search for extraterrestrial…
NASA has released additional Kepler data about TRAPPIST-1 – an ultra-cool dwarf star that hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets. On February 22, astronomers…
Using ALMA, a team of astronomers has detected a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the Universe was only four percent…
This new HiRISE image shows a mass of flow features on the surface of Mars. Viscous, lobate flow features are commonly found at the bases…
This newly released Cassini image shows Enceladus at a distance of approximately 41,000 miles (66,000 kilometers) away. Enceladus is a world divided. To the north,…
This ALMA image of the week shows the binary star system of LL Pegasi and its companion. Although it looks like the pattern of a…
This newly released Hubble image shows star cluster Westerlund 1, which is located 15,000 light-years away. Light travels through space at just under 300,000 kilometers…
European Space Agency’s Mars Express has captured images of one of the largest outflow channel networks on Mars. The Kasei Valles channel system extends around…
Astronomers plan to use the James Webb Space Telescope to detect atmospheric features of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. With the discovery of seven…
In a newly published study, scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics detail a sensitive new method for detecting gravitational waves. The recent detection of…
Scientists from NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research have shown that data from a ground-based instrument called K-Cor can give scientists early warning…
This newly released HiRISE image shows a portion of an inverted fluvial channel in the region of Aeolis/Zephyria Plana, at the Martian equator. Channels become…
This new close-up view of Jupiter comes from NASA’s Juno spacecraft. It captures the turbulent region just west of the Great Red Spot in the…
A team of scientists has measured rapidly varying temperatures in hot gas emanating from around a black hole for the first time. These ultrafast “winds”…
This new Very Large Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1055, which is located roughly 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Cetus. This…
A team of astrophysicists has produced one of the highest-resolution maps of dark matter to date, offering a detailed case for the existence of cold…
This newly released HiRISE image shows the North Polar layered deposits on Mars, which are a 3-kilometer (1.9-mile) thick stack of dusty water ice layers…