Images of Astronomers’ Top 20 Intriguing Exoplanets
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first confirmed planet around a sun-like star, more than 60 leaders in the field of exoplanet observations…
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first confirmed planet around a sun-like star, more than 60 leaders in the field of exoplanet observations…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to take the deepest dive ever through the plume of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean…
The Dawn Spacecraft begins its fourth and final science orbit at dwarf planet Ceres. Many hope this low-altitude mapping orbit will provide more information about…
Using Japan’s Suzaku X-ray satellite, a team of astronomers present the first measurements of the abundances of iron, magnesium, silicon and sulfur in four directions…
This new Cassini image helps reveal the different features of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Enceladus is a world divided. To the north, the terrain is covered…
This newly released Hubble image shows the quadruple star system DI Cha. Two stars shine through the center of a ring of cascading dust in…
Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology have probed the magnetic fields in the inner regions of stars for the first time, revealing that they…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft is set to fly directly through a plume of icy spray coming from Saturn’s moon Enceladus, revealing new details about the moon….
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has captured images of Pluto’s tiny moon Kerberos, completing the family portrait of Pluto’s moons. Kerberos appears to be smaller than…
This new image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 is part of a collection of new images released from the Chandra archive to celebrate American Archive…
Using the repurposed Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as it spirals around a white dwarf…
Using three X-ray telescopes, astronomers have witnessed stellar debris being blown away after a black hole destroyed the star. This event, dubbed ASASSN-14li, is located…
Using gravitational lensing, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed some of the earliest known galaxies — galaxies that formed just 600 million years after the…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute and the International Space Science Institute have analyzed the Ulysses interstellar dust measurements, revealing that dust particles can change…
This newly released ESO image shows a spiral disc around HD 100453, which is located 350 light-years away. ESO’s SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument installed on…
A team of astronomers has discovered the hottest and most massive double star system to date where the two components are in contact and sharing…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a newly published study reveals that when our solar system was born less than ten percent of the…
New research from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission provides the most definitive analyses, theories and results about local interstellar space to date. The new…