Scientists Believe Mars Crater Is the Remains of an Ancient Supervolcano
Based on images and topographic data, new research shows that the Eden Patera basin on Mars is a volcanic caldera, not an impact crater. A…
Based on images and topographic data, new research shows that the Eden Patera basin on Mars is a volcanic caldera, not an impact crater. A…
This seven-minute Hubblecast video helps explain how Hubble “looks back in time” to see the Universe as it was billions of years ago. Hubblecast 68:…
This newly released Hubble image shows planetary nebula NGC 2452. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the planetary nebula NGC 2452, located in the…
A newly published study details how astronomers detected cold streams of primordial hydrogen, vestigial matter left over from the Big Bang, fueling a distant star-forming…
In a newly published study, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute reexamine the unipolar induction mechanism for heating asteroids, detailing how biomolecules were once able…
Astronomers use quasars in a technique known as Delta-Differential One-Way Ranging to help achieve precise navigation of spacecraft in deep-space. Deep-space missions require precise navigation,…
Using data from the National Science Foundation’s South Pole Telescope and ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have made the first detection of a subtle twist…
Astronomers used data from NASA’s Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes to produce a very low-resolution ‘map’ of the exoplanet Kepler-7b. Scientists using data from NASA’s…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected propylene on Titan for the first time, solving a long-standing mystery about the solar system’s most Earthlike moon. Credit: NASA’s…
In a newly published study, scientists present a new hypothesis on the nature of black holes, challenging the current “clean” black hole model. A black…
A new study demonstrates how to distinguish between cloudy mini-Neptunes and volatile-dominated super-Earths based on the differences in the wing steepness and relative depths of…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy cluster MACS J0152.5-2852. This image shows the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0152.5-2852, captured in detail by the NASA/ESA…
Analysis of the Martian soil samples taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover has revealed that water molecules are bound to fine-grained soil particles, accounting for about…
In a newly published study, astronomers report key observations that confirm a theory on how dust grains in interstellar space spin and organize themselves in…
A team of scientists has discovered that a neutron star, dubbed IGR J18245-2452, has the ability to transform from a radio pulsar into an X-ray…
Using Chandra, Hubble, and ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy that weighs more than 200 times our Sun, over half of which…
In a newly released study, scientists from the University of Sydney detail a huge outburst of energy that occurred two million years ago from the…
Sunrise observatory provides the first high-resolution images of the chromosphere in ultraviolet light. Three months after the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise, scientists…