Cassini Reveals Cloud of Frozen Hydrogen Cyanide Particles Hovering Over Titan
Data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveals that a giant polar vortex hovering over the south pole of Titan contains frozen particles of the toxic compound…
Data from NASA’s Cassini mission reveals that a giant polar vortex hovering over the south pole of Titan contains frozen particles of the toxic compound…
Using new data obtained by NASA’s GRAIL mission, astronomers discovered that a volcanic plume, not an asteroid, likely created the moon’s largest basin. Early theories…
A team of international astronomers has discovered two new Jupiter-sized extra-solar planets, each orbiting one star of a binary-star system. Most known extra-solar planets orbit…
This new video from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows how many sunspots develop and fade away over a period of days. Lots of Spots Over…
NASA’s Swift satellite detected a massive superflare from a red dwarf star in the binary system DG CVn. The initial blast was as much as…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and several other radio telescopes, astronomers find direct evidence that merging galaxies can form disc galaxies instead of…
A new study details the orbital architectures of Kepler systems having multiple planet candidates, revealing 899 transiting planet candidates in 365 multiple-planet systems and providing…
New images from Cassini data show the appearance and evolution of a mysterious feature in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest hydrocarbon seas on Saturn’s…
New supercomputer simulations show that non-rotating supermassive primordial stars can die as highly energetic thermonuclear supernovae powered by explosive helium burning, releasing about 10,000 times…
Using a spectral filter, this wide-angle camera view of Saturn was taken on April 2, 2014 by the Cassini spacecraft. Saturn’s many cloud patterns, swept…
This newly released Hubble image shows AG Carinae – a luminous star classified as a Luminous Blue Variable. In this new Hubble image, the strikingly…
A team of astronomers has detected the presence of iso-propyl cyanide in interstellar space, opening a new frontier in the chemistry of star formation. There…
A newly published study from the Carnegie Institution for Science reveals that a significant fraction of our Solar System’s water is older than the Sun…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has collected its first drill sample from the base of Mount Sharp on Mars. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has collected its…
This new Hubble image reveals what seems to be a recently-formed galaxy in the local universe. Astronomers usually have to peer very far into the…
Using the combined power of NASA’s Spitzer, Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, researchers have discovered clear skies and water vapor on a Neptune-size gaseous exoplanet…
The above images are the first observations of the extended upper atmosphere from NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft. NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has…
New research from the Carnegie Institution for Science helps to explain why binary stars are so abundant. Washington, D.C. — New modeling studies from Carnegie’s…