NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Reaches Historic Encounter with Pluto
After three billion miles and a decade-long journey through our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has finally reached Pluto. New Horizons made its closest…
After three billion miles and a decade-long journey through our solar system, NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has finally reached Pluto. New Horizons made its closest…
As this new image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows, Titan is a “large” moon but it is still dwarfed by Saturn. Although Titan (3200 miles…
As the New Horizons Spacecraft speeds closer to its July 14 flyby of Pluto, it’s continuing to producing images and record data on an icy…
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the ghostly shells of galaxy ESO 381-12, set against a backdrop of distant galaxies. The…
This newly released Hubble image shows the Quintuplet Cluster, which is located 100 light-years from the center of our galaxy. Although this cluster of stars…
In just a few days New Horizons will flyby Pluto at 30,800 miles (49,600 kilometers) per hour with seven science instruments busily gathering data and…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other satellites have recorded a record flare from a black hole at the center of the distant galaxy 3C…
The latest image from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager reveals signs of geology on Pluto. The above image was taken on July 9, 2015, …
A team of scientists has discovered a black hole in the early universe that grew much faster than its host galaxy, resulting in a gigantic…
Astronomers used the Venus transit to make measurements of how the Venusian atmosphere absorbs different kinds of light, revealing clues to what elements are layered…
Since June 15, astronomers have been monitoring the ongoing light show detected by NASA’s Swift satellite. This new outburst is from V404 Cygni, a binary…
Another day, another great set of images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager showing Pluto and Charon. They’re a fascinating pair: Two icy worlds,…
The first results from the Kilo-Degree Survey have been released, helping to further expand our understanding of dark matter. The first results have been released…
New observations from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, Japan’s Hinode Spacecraft, and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory have been combined to form this new image of…
After three-billion plus miles and over nine years, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to begin its Pluto flyby observations. In the early morning hours…
A new study being presented at National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno shows that Earth-like planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way are three times…
This is the latest image of Pluto from the New Horizons Spacecraft – The Whale and the Donut. This is the latest map of Pluto…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that the most probable explanation for the inner gap in transition disks is the influence of…