Hubble Image of the Day – Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
First released in 2005, this Hubble image of the day shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever…
First released in 2005, this Hubble image of the day shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300. One of the largest Hubble Space Telescope images ever…
A newly published study reveals that seven tiny grains of dust captured by NASA’s Stardust Spacecraft probably came from outside our solar system, perhaps created…
An international team of researchers has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way, moving astronomers closer to solving…
Scientists are using Chandra data to help determine what caused the Type Ia supernova SN 2014J to explode. New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory…
Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered that near-Earth asteroid 1950 DA is held together by cohesive forces called van der Waals. Researchers at…
A new four minute ScienceCast video examines what might happen if the atmosphere of Comet Siding Spring, which is about to fly historically close to…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that interstellar molecules may be silicon-capped hydrocarbons like SiC3H, SiC4H, and SiC5H. Over the vast, empty…
A newly released image from the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an irregularly shaped boulder that apparently rolled down a hill on…
A newly released animated image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows methane clouds moving above the large methane sea known as Ligeia Mare on Saturn’s moon…
NuSTAR observations reveal X-ray light streaming from regions near supermassive black hole Markarian 335. NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and…
New research from Yale University and the Weizmann Institute shows that early quasars took in a “super boost,” feasting from large reservoirs of gas that…
Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astrophysicists may have detected an emission line from a form of dark matter, the sterile neutrino, in the…
A new study from astrophysicists at the University of Warwick reveals that calcium-rich supernovae are likely created by white dwarf stars crashing into neutron stars….
This newly released Hubble image shows several colorful galaxies, the most prominent being the two galaxies on the left: 2MASX J16133219+5103436 at the bottom, and…
In a newly published study, scientists reveal that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in…
Using the William E. Gordon Telescope, astronomers discovered a bridge of atomic hydrogen gas 2.6 million light-years long between galaxies 500 million light-years away. Astronomers…
ESA’s Rosetta became the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet, making the historic rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on August 6, 2014. After a decade-long…
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to view the light of a star that had lost its outer hydrogen envelope after a Type Iax supernova…