Astronomers Deduce the Characteristics of Nanodust
A team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft to deduce the characteristics of nanodust, showing…
A team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft to deduce the characteristics of nanodust, showing…
A team of physicists has developed a theoretical model to help explain some of the deviations between previous measurements of the expansion rate of the…
Using data from an intercontinental combination of radio telescopes, astronomers have been able to see massive clumps of cold gas being pushed away from the…
In a new study, scientists report on the first ten identifications of sources serendipitously detected by NuSTAR. NASA’s black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array,…
Based on data spanning four decades from eleven different spacecraft, a new study shows that interstellar wind most likely changed direction over the last 40…
A newly published study measures distances, luminosities, and temperatures of brown dwarfs, finding that they are warmer than previously thought with temperatures about 400-450 K…
This new four minute ScienceCast video details the upcoming NASA LADEE mission to explore lunar twilight rays and other mysteries of the lunar atmosphere. A…
This newly released Hubble image shows lenticular galaxy PGC 10922. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of PGC 10922, an example of…
Using Hubble observations, a new study from the University of Manchester has found that bipolar planetary nebulae located towards the central bulge of our Milky…
After 10 years of planning, building, and testing, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has officially begun. Tonight, as the sun sinks below the horizon, the…
New Subaru Telescope observations of super-Earth GJ 1214 b show that the exoplanet is likely to have a water-rich atmosphere. A Japanese research team of…
A newly published study details a massive storm that erupted on Saturn in late 2010, finding that cloud particles at the top of the great…
Using Pan-STARRS and UKIDSS, astronomers discovered 673 binaries with candidate brown dwarf companions. Astronomers trying to understand how the Sun and Earth formed, and why…
This new image from the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (PRESSTO) shows spiral galaxy Messier 74 and its new supernova, SN2013ej. ESO’s PESSTO…
This composite image from NASA’s NuSTAR and the European Southern Observatory shows the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253. The Sculptor galaxy is seen…
The first batch of data from NASA’s NuSTAR is now publicly available, providing data on observations obtained during the first two months of the mission…
Astronomers from the University of British Columbia have identified a 60-kilometer-wide (37-mile-wide) asteroid that shares the orbit of Uranus. UBC astronomers have discovered the first…
This composite Hubble image shows IRAS 20324+4057, a protostar in a very early evolutionary stage. This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a…