Ready for Launch, NASA’s SUMI Rocket to Study the Sun’s Magnetic Fields
NASA’s SUMI rocket mission is set to launch this week from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, testing the technologies that have been developed…
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Possibly the Fastest Moving Pulsar Ever Detected – Traveling at 6 Million MPH
Using three different telescopes, scientists found evidence of a pulsar moving at a speed between 5.4 million and 6.5 million miles per hour at a…
Near Miss Asteroid – An Opportunity To Test a Rapid Response Program
As an international team of astronomers continues to monitor the skies for approaching asteroids, the recent approach of a 23-foot wide asteroid gave scientists an…
A Vapor of Stars from Galaxy DDO 82
A new image made up of exposures taken in visible and infrared light by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows galaxy DDO 82, which is…
Cassini Data Reveals Likely Subsurface Ocean on Titan
By using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure variations in the gravitational pull of Titan, researchers were able to determine Titan’s internal structure, finding…
New Planet Weighing Technique Measures Non-Transiting Planet’s Mass
Using a new method that involves studying the carbon monoxide signature of a planet’s atmosphere, scientists were able to measure the exact mass of a…
Searching for Molecular Oxygen in the Orion Nebula
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, CfA astronomers led a team in search of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula, reporting that they still did not…
NASA Data Reveals Significant Changes in Exoplanet’s Atmosphere
Similar to Jupiter, exoplanet HD 189733b is a gas giant that circles its star, named HD 189733A, at a distance of only 3 million miles…
Gravitational Wave Detection
The hunt for gravitational waves continues to move forward as theoretical studies and enhancements to gravitational wave detectors help guide researchers. Astronomers have long relied…
Gas Cloud Headed Towards Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
While monitoring the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, astronomers discovered an ionized gas cloud with a…
Hubble Spots Extremely Rare Gravitational Arc
Astronomers have discovered an arc of light behind a galaxy cluster that is 5 to 10 times larger than other clusters from that early of…
Lonestar Supercomputer Helps Explore Dark Matter
By combining deep-space observations with the powerful Lonestar supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, astrophysicists hope to make revolutionary discoveries about dark matter. From…
NASA’s Voyager 1 at the Final Frontier
At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft’s long-awaited entry into…
Heat from Within the Planet Powers Saturn’s Jet Streams
Using automated cloud tracking software to analyze the movements and speeds of clouds seen in hundreds of Cassini images from 2005 through 2012, scientists have…
Hubble Space Telescope Views the Globular Cluster Messier 10
In the constellation of Ophiuchus and about 15,000 light-years from Earth, the globular cluster Messier 10 was discovered by Charles Messier in the 18th century…
Curiosity’s Seven Minute Descent on Mars
This video shares the challenges of Curiosity’s final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars, which is scheduled to occur at approximately 10:31 p.m….
ULIRG Arp 220 Developed From a Multiple Merger of Four or More Galaxies
Using data from the Subaru Telescope and optical spectroscopy from the W. M. Keck Observatory, astronomers concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp 220 developed…
ESA’s Euclid Mission Receives Final Approval
Designed to help scientists understand why the Universe expanding at an accelerating rate, ESA’s Euclid mission received final approval and will move into the construction…
