Hubble Sees an Asteroid with Six Comet-Like Tails
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have viewed for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it. Astronomers viewing…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have viewed for the first time an asteroid with six comet-like tails of dust radiating from it. Astronomers viewing…
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission, researchers offer new insight into how the moon received its “face.” Scientists using data from…
Dartmouth researchers shed new light on dark energy and eliminate the possibility that our planet, solar system and galaxy are at the center of the…
A new study from researchers at Caltech details the collapse of rapidly rotating supermassive stars that formed in the early Universe. The study shows that…
This two minute NASA video details M60-UCD1, an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy with a mass about 200 million times that of our sun. Two-Minute Tour: An…
While searching for gravitational waves generated by supermassive black holes merging, astronomers using the Parkes Radio Telescope have discovered new information about the frequency and…
This new image from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s rings and five of its moons. Five moons pose for the international Cassini spacecraft to create…
Using an array of radio telescopes, a team of astrophysicists discovered the first examples of black holes in globular star clusters in our own galaxy….
Based on a statistical analysis of all the Kepler data, astronomers now estimate that one in five stars like our Sun have planets about the…
The latest analysis of Kepler Space Telescope data has revealed the discovery of 833 new candidate planets; ten of these candidates are less than twice…
The even distribution of iron throughout the Perseus cluster has allowed astrophysicists to tell the billion-year-old story of how exploding stars and black holes sowed…
Released to the public for the first time, this Chandra/ESO image shows NGC 3576. A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of…
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers discovered a magnetic field deep in…
Using data from NASA’s WISE and GALEX missions, astronomers have gathered new evidence for the “inside-out” theory of galaxy growth, showing that bursts of star…
This newly released WISE image shows the Witch Head nebula, which is located in the Orion constellation. A witch appears to be screaming out into…
Using Suzaku’s X-ray telescopes to make 84 observations of the Perseus Cluster, researchers discovered that most of the universe’s heavy elements, including the iron central…
Astronomers discover the first known Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density, a scorching lava world that circles its star every eight and a half hours…
This newly released Hubble image shows Proxima Centauri, which is located just over four light-years from Earth. Shining brightly in this Hubble image is our…