NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Completes 40,000 Mars Orbits
Launched in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has now orbited the Red Planet more than 40,000 times. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone…
Launched in 2005, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has now orbited the Red Planet more than 40,000 times. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone…
Using the precise data from the Kepler exoplanet mission, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have determined the rotation period measurements for 30 cool…
This four minute video from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center combines data from NASA satellites and theoretical modeling to produce an unparalleled look into Eta…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849. In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the…
Recent Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter observations reveal that deposits of hydrogen may be slightly more abundant on crater slopes in the southern hemisphere that face the…
This newly released NASA Goddard Space Flight Center video uses Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter data to show what the other side of the Moon looks like….
New research from the Planck Mission is refining what we know about our universe, making more precise measurements of matter, including dark matter, and how…
Using the Titius-Bode relation and Kepler data, astronomers from Australian National University estimate that the standard star has about two planets in the habitable zone….
Taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in visible light, these new images capture the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter’s largest moons (Europa, Callisto,…
Headed towards Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured this new image of Pluto and its moon Charon. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of Ceres. At a resolution of 8.5 miles (14 kilometers) per pixel, the pictures represent…
A newly released image taken from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope shows the Trifid Nebula and reveals hidden variable stars. By observing in infrared light, astronomers…
Using CWRU’s Burrell Schmidt telescope at KPNO, astronomers identify two new tidal streams extending from the northeast and south of the nearby spiral galaxy M51a….
A new analysis of data has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the early universe, showing that much of the signal detected by…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics report that, when compared with non-interacting field galaxies, the star formation rate does indeed increase in merging spirals,…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7814. Galaxies can take many shapes and be oriented in any way relative to us in…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals near-infrared observations of the young Milky Way supernova remnant Cassiopeia A and a three-dimensional map of…
A new study from the University of Washington details how strong irradiation from the host star can cause planets known as mini-Neptunes in the habitable…