NASA’s Juno Spacecraft is Halfway to Jupiter
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,…
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…
Mars Express has provided scientists with a radar view of the southern highlands of Mars, showing what lies beneath the surface. There is much more…
Using the FORS1 instrument on the 8.2-meter ESO Very Large Telescope, astronomers captured a new image of galaxies NGC 799 and NGC 800. This beautiful…
In this newly released image Hubble views a young star being born in the gas, dust, and ices of the dark cloud LDN 43. Don’t…
The FastSound Project has released its first version of a 3D map of the far-distant Universe. An international team led by astronomers from Kyoto University,…
In a newly published study, physics students from the Niels Bohr Institute report the discovery of a quasar whose light has been deflected and reflected…
Data from the Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope has helped solve the mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, revealing that…
Using cosmic microwave background radiation data from Planck and WMAP9, researchers look back through time at the first 100 years to 300,000 years after the…
A new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope reveals a closer look at NGC 2014 and its neighbor NGC 2020. ESO’s Very Large Telescope has…
According to data from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip. Watch this new four minute ScienceCast video to learn more…
Using data from NASA’s Swift spacecraft and observations by the MMT Telescope in Arizona and the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, researchers discovered one of…
Subaru Telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam displays its abilities with an impressive image of M31. A stunning image of M31 captured by Subaru Telescope’s Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC)…
NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft captures a color image of the Hovnatanian crater, an elliptical crater on Mercury. This color image, taken on May 1, 2013 by…
Astronomers in the SEEDS Project have discovered the least massive planet ever detected around a star like the sun. A so-called “second Jupiter,” planet GJ…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed a new type of stellar explosion called a kilonova. Kilonovas are about 1,000 times brighter than a nova, but they…
While studying subdwarf stars, a team of astronomers discovered two unusual stars with extremely high concentrations of lead in their atmospheres. They estimate that the…