Data from Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has allowed researchers to confirm that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play a major role in the production…
Using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a newly published study suggests that migrating planets stop their inward journey before reaching their stars, remaining in…
By studying TW Hydrae, researchers are getting a glimpse of what happened to our Sun some four and a half billion years ago. Indianapolis, IN…
New research presented at this year’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society suggests that NGC 6334 is forming stars at a more rapid pace than…
New images from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project capture the birth and death of stars in the lesser-known areas at the outer…
A newly published study suggest that black holes were abundant among the first stars in the universe, finding that black holes are responsible for at…
Using inexpensive ground-based telescopes, researchers discovered a hot Saturn-like exoplanet when its passed in front of it host star. A scientific team led by University…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used a flash of light from double-star system T Pyxidis to probe for the first time the 3-D structure…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have captured an image of the newly discovered planet HD95086 b, a planet with a predicted mass of only…
Research presented at the 222nd American Astronomical Society meeting suggests that the dwarf galaxy IC3418 has stopped making stars and that it is in the…
A rare stellar alignment will offer astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope two opportunities to search for Earth-like planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri….
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, researchers report finding the earliest known galaxy undergoing a massive burst of star formation, existing at least as…
NASA’s Kepler Mission delivers new data, adding 1,924 new KOIs detected over a 34-month baseline. On May 28, 2013, NASA’s Kepler mission delivered new data…
In this new image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
Further analysis of Curiosity data has led researchers to believe that an ancient, flowing stream once existed on Mars. Pasadena, California – Detailed analysis and…
By combining GRAIL gravity data with computer models of large asteroid impacts and known details about the geologic evolution of impact craters, scientists were able…
Using the Deep Space Network antenna, astronomers have captured the first radar images of asteroid QE2. The asteroid is approximately 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) in…
Researchers used ESO’s Very Large Telescope to carefully study the light coming from stars in the globular star cluster NGC 6752, finding that all of…
