New Horizons Spacecraft Reveals Series of Spots on Pluto That Fascinate
The New Horizons Spacecraft has captured new color images of mysterious spots on Pluto. The new color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two…
The New Horizons Spacecraft has captured new color images of mysterious spots on Pluto. The new color images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft show two…
A newly published study reveals that 18 quasi-circular pits in the northern hemisphere of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko’s are responsible for its halo of dust and gas….
A fundamentally new mathematical formulation from Vanderbilt University has some significant implications for the ultimate fate of the universe. The universe can be a very…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has detected frozen methane on Pluto’s surface. Yes, there is methane on Pluto, and, no, it doesn’t come from cows. The…
After decades of speculation and searching, astronomers have discovered the important dust-forming molecule Si-C-Si (disilicon carbide) in space. The space between stars is not empty…
Astronomers around the world are watching the onset of a rare X-ray outburst from a stellar-mass black hole in the binary system V404 Cygni. On…
Over the years the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has provided a state-of-the-art research facility for astronomers around the globe. Many ground breaking discoveries have been…
Artist’s illustration of a star with an Earth-like planet. Credit: IAC A newly published study has shown with high precision that even stars older than…
The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will attempt to view the dwarf planet Pluto as it passes in front of a distant star. The Stratosphere…
In this image NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveals the spiral structures in Saturn’s D ring. Although the D ring of Saturn is so thin that it’s…
This Hubble image of the week shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 or SDSS CGB 12067.1, which is located roughly 45 million light-years from Earth….
Today’s NASA Image of the Day is titled “Watching Meteors From the Space Station.” Astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 28 flight engineer, tweeted this image from…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has detected excess infrared light around white dwarf PG 0010+280. Scientists aren’t sure where the light is coming from, but one…
Astrophysicists have created a new supercomputer simulation of the exoplanet and debris disk around the Beta Pictoris. The new supercomputer model reveals that the planet’s…
This newly released Hubble image shows planetary nebula NGC 6153, which is located about 4,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Scorpius. The faint…
The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, an M7.9-class, peaking at 4:16 a.m. EDT on June 25, 2015. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the…
According to new observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, the giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 has swallowed an entire medium-sized galaxy over the last billion…
An enormous cloud of hydrogen is bleeding off the warm exoplanet GJ 436b due to exreme radiation from its star. The huge cloud is about…