Saturn-Like Rings May Have Formed Solar System’s Moons
Earth’s moon might have emerged from a long-vanished ring system, akin to the rings still encircling Saturn, and this could apply to many of the…
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GRAIL Generates High Resolution Gravity Field Map of the Moon
New data from NASA’s Ebb and Flow probes was used to generate a high-resolution gravity field map of the moon, showing that the moon’s gravity…
Astronomers Identify a New Kind of Galaxy, “Green Bean Galaxies”
Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has been identified as part of a new class of galaxies…
Impact May Have Deformed Saturn’s Moon Iapetus
One of the strangest moons in the Solar System is Saturn’s Iapetus, which features an enormous equatorial mountain ridge and spiky belt that rises 12…
Herschel and Keck Reveal Previously Unseen Starburst Galaxies
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory and spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W.M. Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, astronomers characterized 767 previously unseen starburst…
Titan’s Icy Outer Crust Is Likely Twice As Thick as Previously Believed
Using radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a new analysis of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, suggests that it has an icy, rocky core with a…
Voyager 1 Enters “Magnetic Highway,” The Final Area before Interstellar Space
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entered a magnetic highway for charged particles, the final region before it reaches interstellar space. NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has entered…
Vega Older Than Previously Thought, Could Harbor Life
Vega is situated in the constellation Lyra, 25 light-years away from Earth, and it is the fifth brightest star in the sky. In 1983, astronomers…
Hubble Views Galaxy ESO 318-13
This is a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy ESO 318-13 and other more distant galaxies, which are located millions of light-years…
New Finding Challenges Theories of How Rocky, Earth-Scale Planets Form
While viewing the young brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, an international team of astronomers pinpointed carbon monoxide gas around the brown dwarf and found that the…
Hubble Views Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5253
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows irregular galaxy NGC 5253, a Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy located at a distance of about 12…
Presence of Ice on Mercury Confirmed by MESSENGER Probe
While the surface of Mercury is hot enough in some places to melt lead, the MESSENGER probe confirmed that there are about a trillion tonnes…
New Observation of Dark Matter in Galaxy Cluster Abell 520
A newly published study from astronomers at Ohio University shows that the core of Abell 520 does not appear to be over-dense in dark matter…
Hubble and VLA View Elliptical Galaxy Hercules A
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Array radio telescope combine to create this image of elliptical galaxy Hercules A, also known as 3C…
Atomic Gas Superfluid Might Help Model the Early Cosmos
Quantum physicists have shown that superfluid gases can conduct without experiencing any resistance, possibly paving the way to help model the early Universe in the…
Massive Black Hole is 17 Billion Times Our Sun’s Mass
A massive black hole, measuring 17 billion times our sun’s mass and more than 11 times as wide as Neptune’s orbit around the sun, could…
Graphite Experiment Shines New Light on Laser-Driven Nuclear Fusion and Astrophysics
A newly published study, which examines how energy is shared between the different species of matter and how it is transferred from strongly heated electrons…
Scientists Discover the Most Powerful Quasar Outflow Ever
Scientists have discovered a quasar that is at least five times more powerful than any that has been observed to date. Data reveals that a…
