NASA’s Spitzer Helps Researchers Get a Closer Look at Hot Jupiters
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers are taking a closer look at exoplanets known as Hot Jupiters, revealing a wide range of climates, raging winds…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers are taking a closer look at exoplanets known as Hot Jupiters, revealing a wide range of climates, raging winds…
According to a newly published study from Caltech astrophysicist Anthony Piro, a new kind of cosmic flash may reveal the birth of a black hole….
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Swift satellite viewed gamma-ray burst 130427A, which produced the highest-energy light ever detected from a GRB. A record-setting blast…
This Hubble image shows the remains of a white dwarf supernova known as SNR 0519, which is located over 150,000 light-years from Earth in the…
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, researchers discovered that galaxies in the early Universe were cooler than those we see around us today. The…
Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists from the University of Iowa have discovered how the magnetosphere around Saturn changes with the planet’s seasons, providing…
ESA’s Mars Express has captured new images of a region on Mars known as Sulci Gordii, which lies about 200 km east of Olympus Mons….
Using a new instrument dubbed SAM, astronomers demonstrated the significant difference that sharp stellar images can make in our understanding of the properties of stars,…
A new image from ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows NGC 6559, a star formation region located roughly 5,000 light-years from Earth in the…
In a new study, scientists from the University of Exeter and the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon reveal that Saturn’s youthful appearance is due to…
Using data from the Very Large Array, astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for nearly all the radio waves coming…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has a close call with the 3,100-pound Cosmos 1805, a defunct Cold-War spy satellite, avoiding a near collision. NASA scientists…
A burst of star formation that lasted for at least 200 million years may be responsible for a cloud of hot gas, which contains the…
Two new transiting, close-in, giant extrasolar planets KOI-200b and KOI-889b, have been detected and characterized with Kepler, SOPHIE and HARPS-N. An international team of astronomers,…
Launched roughly four years ago, the Herschel space telescope has run out of liquid coolant and has stopped making observations. The Herschel observatory, a European…
Taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, this NASA image of the day shows the spinning vortex of Saturn’s north polar storm. The spinning vortex of Saturn’s…
This Hubble image shows the young star PV Cep, which is located in the northern constellation of Cepheus at a distance of over 1600 light-years…
The below four minute ScienceCast video explores the possibility that the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer onboard the International Space Station has detected signs of dark matter….