Cassini Reveals a Rigid and Weathered Ice Shell on Titan
Using new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists from UC Santa Cruz discovered a negative correlation between the gravity and topography signals on Titan, indicating…
Using new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists from UC Santa Cruz discovered a negative correlation between the gravity and topography signals on Titan, indicating…
Using the combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs, the Einstein@Home project discovered 24 new pulsars in archival data. The combined computing power of 200,000…
Scientists view a rare multiple quasar imaging event caused by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in the Milky Way Galaxy. For the…
Using data from HMI, scientists compared the helioseismology results measured at four different heights within the sun’s surface, finding the long-sought equatorward flow inside the…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have identified the star HIP 102152 as the oldest solar twin known to date. An international team led by…
NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully used autonomous navigation for the first time this week. Pasadena, California – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for…
A team of researchers has found evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the surface of the moon from an unknown source deep beneath…
By comparing data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared observations by the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes, astronomers discovered an almost linear relationship between…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is celebrating its tenth year in space, where it has studied comets and asteroids, scrutinized planets and galaxies, and even discovered…
This new composite image from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory shows the Orion A star-formation cloud. This new view of the Orion A star-formation cloud from…
This NEOWISE image shows asteroid 1998 KN3 as it zips by the Orion nebula. This image shows the potentially hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as…
This short ScienceCast video details the close encounter Comet ISON is expected to have with Mars. A new ScienceCast video anticipates Comet ISON’s close flyby…
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to observe a disk around the young star RY Tau, finding that a “fluffy” layer above the disk appears to…
Using more than thirteen years observations from Hubble, astronomers have created a time-lapse movie of a 5,000-light-year-long jet of superheated gas as it is ejected…
This newly released Hubble images shows irregular dwarf galaxy PGC 16389, galaxy APMBGC 252+125-117 and many other more distant galaxies. At first glance, this Hubble…
NASA has released new images and a three minute video showing the crew operations on NASA’s proposed Asteroid Redirect Mission. Concept animation showing the crew…
A new technique developed by astronomers simplifies the measurement of a star’s surface gravity using its light flickers, which enhances our understanding of its physical…
NASA plans to reactivate the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer to help identify the population of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, as well as asteroids suitable for…