Rock “Appears” in Front of Opportunity Rover
This before and after view from NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rock that scientists believe was likely knocked into position from one…
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VLT Survey Telescope Views the Lagoon Nebula
This new image from the VLT Survey Telescope shows the Lagoon Nebula, which is located roughly 5,000 light-years from us in the constellation of Sagittarius….
ESA/ESO Collaboration Successfully Tracks Its First Near-Earth Object
The new collaboration between ESA and ESO has successfully tracked its first potentially threatening Near-Earth Object. The first Near-Earth Object (NEO) recovery campaign has been…
T-Dwarf Provides Benchmark for Future Exoplanet Research
Researchers have directly imaged a very rare type of brown dwarf, opening the door towards a fuller understanding of exoplanets. A team of researchers led…
Radiation of Distant Quasar Reveals a Filament of the Cosmic Web
Using the Keck I Telescope, a team of astronomers viewed part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Astronomers…
New Gaia-ESO Research Reveals that the Milky Way Formed “Inside-Out”
New research from the Gaia-ESO Survey shows that the inner regions of the Milky Way assembled faster than the outer regions, revealing that the Milky…
The Formation of Pluto and Its Moons
A newly published study looks at the formation of Pluto and its low-mass satellites, finding Pluto and Charon formed from particles that coalesced together in…
Hubble Views Double Quasar QSO 0957+561
This newly released Hubble image shows double quasar QSO 0957+561, also known as the “Twin Quasar,” which is located about 14 billion light-years from Earth….
Astronomers Find Evidence of Planet Formation Far from the Central Star in a Protoplanetary Disk
Using ALMA, astronomers observed a young star named HD142527 and discovered the first firm evidence of planet formation far from the central star in a…
ALMA Discovers the Youngest Protoplanetary Disk to Date
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have discovered the youngest disk around a protostar to date. Planets form in disks around their host…
Supersensitive Detectors to Aid in the Discovery of Gravitational Waves
Physicists around the world are currently focused on the commissioning of three enormous supersensitive detectors that will aid in the discovery of gravitational waves tenfold…
Researchers Discover the First Binary System Consisting of a Black Hole and a Be-Type Star
A newly published study details the discovery of the first binary system consisting of a black hole and a Be-type star. Spanish scientists have discovered…
New Hubble Image of Spiral Galaxy Messier 83
Released at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society, this new Hubble image shows the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. This new Hubble image shows the…
Spitzer Views the Orion Nebula
Using infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers created a new false-color image of the Orion Nebula. Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination…
Astrophysicists Discover a Pulsar that Varies in the Amount of Gamma-Ray Radiation it Emits
Using data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, researchers have discovered a pulsar that varies in the amount of gamma-ray radiation it emits. Astrophysicists studying…
New ScienceCast Video – Countdown to Pluto
A new ScienceCast video details what NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft might find when it reaches Pluto next January. One of the fastest spacecraft ever built…
HARPS Discovers First Exoplanet Orbiting a Solar Twin in a Star Cluster
Using the HARPS planet-finding instrument on ESO’s 3.6-meter telescope, astronomers have discovered three exoplanets orbiting stars in the cluster Messier 67 and one of the…
Gemini Planet Imager Will Begin Large-Scale Survey, Studying 600 Young Stars
The Gemini Planet Imager team will begin a large-scale survey, studying 600 young stars to see what planets orbit them. After nearly a decade of…