NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope completes five years of space exploration, now scientists prepare for several more years of observations as Fermi enters an extended phase…
The post has been updated to reflect another CME that was detected on August 21, 2013, at 1:24 am EDT….Scroll to the bottom of the…
A new theory from researchers at UC Berkeley explains how “zombie vortices” help lead to the birth of a new star. Reporting in the journal…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have captured a close-up view of material streaming away from a newborn star, discovering that its jets are…
Using the data from several telescopes, astronomers measured the mass and density of a large number of the globulettes found in the Rosetts Nebula, finding…
Scientists from MIT have discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet, named Kepler 78b, that orbits its star every 8.5 hours and has estimated surface temperatures as high…
NASA has announced that all attempts to fully restore Kepler have failed and that they are now looking at potential new missions for the space…
This newly released Hubble image shows two spiral galaxies colliding. Astronomical pictures sometimes deceive us with tricks of perspective. Right in the center of this…
This short video is comprised of images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover as it watched the larger of Mars’ two moons, Phobos, passing in front…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a magnetar at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered a magnetar at the center…
In a newly published study, UMD scientists state that Voyager 1 has left our solar system and has entered interstellar space, contradicting recent papers by…
New research from physicists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf looks at how magnetic fields can cause turbulences within “dead zones,” resulting in the formation of black holes…
Using data from the Hubble Space telescope, astronomers show that galaxies had “mature” shapes 11.5 billion years ago. Studying the evolution and anatomy of galaxies…
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope, researchers have discovered that magnetar SGR 0418+5729 has one of the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe. A team of…
A new study reveals that a giant cloud of superheated gas, which is about 6 million degrees, is likely the result of a collision between…
Bound for Jupiter, NASA’s Juno spacecraft reached the halfway point on August 12, 2013 and should arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Once there,…
Using the 45m Telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory and the 10m ASTE telescope, scientists were able to make high-sensitivity video imaging observations of the full…
The latest ScienceCast video explores the attraction astronomers have to class of exoplanets called “hot Jupiters.” ScienceCasts: The Strange Attraction of Hot Jupiters An exotic…