New Images From Dawn’s Closest Orbit of Ceres
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft provide a better look at the surface of Ceres. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit…
New images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft provide a better look at the surface of Ceres. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, cruising in its lowest and final orbit…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have found telltale differences between the gaps in the gas and the dust in discs around four young…
This new Cassini image dramatically displays the contrast between the older and newer terrain on Enceladus. Newer surfaces (on the left in the image) will…
This newly released Hubble image shows HH34, which resides approximately 1,400 light-years away near the Orion Nebula. The artistic outburst of an extremely young star,…
This Christmas Day a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays. Known as the Full Cold Moon, this event won’t happen…
Using infrared surveys from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have identified ten new filamentary dark clouds in the Milky Way and are looking for more…
Using data from the New Horizons flyby of Pluto, astronomers continue to learn more about this icy world and its system of satellites. New Horizons…
Astronomers from Bonn University and the Max Planck Institute present the Effelsberg-Bonn HI-Survey. Radio astronomers from Bonn University and the Max Planck Institute have surveyed…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will make its final close flyby of the ocean-bearing moon Enceladus on December 19, 2015. A thrilling chapter in the exploration of…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views a newborn star shooting twin jets out into space as a sort of birth announcement to the universe. Just in…
NASA prepares to launch the FORTIS sounding rocket, which will study far-ultraviolet light from galaxy NGC 1365 to understand how material is flowing in and…
Astronomers hope that by studying the properties of galaxy clusters at different stages in the history of the Universe they can shed light on the…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that the gas cavity in transition disks in four young stars was as much as three…
Using the VERITAS array, astronomers have detected gamma rays from a blazar known as PKS 1441+25. The research shows that the source of the gamma…
Like a cosmic bull’s-eye, Enceladus and Tethys line up almost perfectly in this new Cassini image. Since the two moons are not only aligned, but…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers details the atmospheres of ten Jupiter-sized exoplanets and was able to…
This newly released Hubble image shows the globular cluster Terzan 1, which is located 20,000 light-years away. This image, taken with the Wide Field Planetary…
Using data from the Kepler and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers reveal that the small star called W1906+40 has a giant storm much like Jupiter’s Great…