3D Models Confirm Supernova’s Role in the Formation of Our Solar System
A soon-to-be published study from scientists at Carnegie Institution for Science provides the first fully three-dimensional models for how a shock wave from a supernova…
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Images From ESA’s Mars Express Reveals the Features of Ladon Basin
New images from the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express reveal a variety of features of several impact craters and their surrounding areas on…
European Extremely Large Telescope Project Underway
Officially underway and set to be built at the summit of a mountain in the Atacama desert, the European Extremely Large Telescope will be sensitive…
ESO’s New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1187
Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this new image from the European Southern Observatory is the most detailed ever taken of spiral galaxy NGC 1187,…
Readying for Curiosity’s Grand Entrance, William Shatner Narrates NASA’s New Video
As the world readies for Curiosity’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” landing on Mars, William Shatner walks us through the process and details in this 4…
Astronomers Detect X-rays From the Remains of Supernova SN 1957D
After 8 and a half days of observations of the spiral galaxy M83, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays from the remains of…
Scientists Report Details of the Gravity Probe-B Mission
In a series of seven papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement, a NASA/Stanford team reported the astronomical issues involved with the analysis of testing…
Geotail Satellite Still Sending Back Crucial Information After 20 Years of Service
Launched just over twenty years ago, the joint Geotail mission satellite is still operational and sending back crucial information about how aurora form, how energy…
Orbits of a Near-Earth Asteroid and a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
This NASA image of the day shows the differences between orbits of a typical near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous asteroid, or PHA. The Hustle…
Hubble Sees Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4700
Discovered in March 1786 and located in the constellation of Virgo, NGC 4700 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy and is about 50 million…
A Connection Between Volatiles in the Subsurface of Mars and the Impact Process
While examining detailed images of Martian impact craters from the HiRISE camera, Western University scientists discovered further evidence for the interaction between subsurface volatiles and…
VLT Reveals That O Stars, Which Drive the Evolution of Galaxies, Don’t Live Alone
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs in six nearby young star clusters in…
Scientists Detected Exoplanetary System With Regularly Aligned Orbits Similar to Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. Located at the center of this system…
Trajectory Models of Refractory Particles Help Solve Two Solar System Puzzles
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed…
NASA’s Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Repositioned to Confirm Curiosity’s Landing
After entering safe mode on July 11th, NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft is now operating normally and used a six second thruster burn to adjust its…
Diogenites Provide Clues of the Earliest Days of Our Solar System
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science are focusing on an old type of meteorite called diogenites to gain a better understanding of the earliest…
Newly Discovered Gamma-Ray Pulsar J1838-0537
By employing new optimal algorithms on their ATLAS computer cluster to help go through Fermi data, scientists from the Max Planck Institute discovered the 5,000…
Accretion Around TW Hydrae – A Relatively Young Star
While studying TW Hydrae, a relatively young star in the TW Hydrae stellar association, astronomers were able to track an accretion flare spectroscopically, providing direct…