Cassini Reveals Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn
Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, astronomers believe they have discovered the possible formation of a new tiny moon within the rings of Saturn. NASA’s…
Using data from the Cassini spacecraft, astronomers believe they have discovered the possible formation of a new tiny moon within the rings of Saturn. NASA’s…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 3455. Shown here is a spiral galaxy known as NGC 3455, which lies some 65 million…
Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ALMA radio array, astronomers have detected a flow of about ten billion solar masses of rapidly moving molecular…
Astronomers have discovered that supernova remnant G352.7-0.1 is sweeping up a remarkable amount of material as it expands, an amount equivalent to about 45 times…
By using gravitational microlensing and taking advantage of chance alignments between stars, an international team of researchers has spotted the first signs of an exomoon….
New research from Arizona State University shows evidence that the Gusev Crater on Mars once held a lake. If desert mirages occur on Mars, “Lake…
Using a spectral filter, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft views the lakes of Saturn’s moon Titan. The Cassini spacecraft peers down through layers of haze to glimpse…
This newly released image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile shows planetary nebula Abell 33. Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile have…
A newly released Curiosity image shows a bright spot on the surface of Mars, which was possibly caused by the sun glinting off a rock…
New radar images from the Cassini orbiter show dark streaks carved into dunes on Saturn’s moon Titan. The moons of our Solar System are brimming…
Using 140,000 distant quasars, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have made the most precise measurement to date of the expanding Universe. The Baryon…
Using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CfA scientists examined 264,283 galaxies and measured the signature of the acoustic waves left behind. Perhaps the…
As the gas cloud, called G2, edges closer to the supermassive black hole Sgr A*, astronomers at Northwestern University are hoping to learn new information…
Researchers have measured the mass of the El Gordo Galaxy Cluster, calculating the cluster’s mass to be as much as 3 million billion times the…
New maps from the Fermi-LAT Collaboration show that the galactic center produces more high-energy gamma rays than can be explained by known sources, suggesting that…
New data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Deep Space Network provide the first geophysical measurements of the internal structure of Enceladus, suggesting that it harbors…
Using the Altair adaptive optics system with the Gemini North Telescope, two NOAO astronomers were able to observe the shell of escaping material around the…
By comparing the predictions of state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations with the results of sophisticated statistical analyses of the cosmic background radiation, two independent studies are challenging…