Suzaku Spectrometer Reveals Insight Into Kepler’s Supernova
Using the Suzaku satellite’s X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS), a team of scientists studied the remnant of Kepler’s supernova, finding evidence that the original white dwarf…
Using the Suzaku satellite’s X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS), a team of scientists studied the remnant of Kepler’s supernova, finding evidence that the original white dwarf…
New data from NASA’s Curiosity rover helped reveal changes in the Martian atmosphere, providing the most precise measurements ever made of isotopes of argon. Mars…
Scientists at NASA and the European Space Agency believe volcanic activity on Io is located 30 to 60 degrees East from where they expected it…
The Hubble Space Telescope views the light and dust in nearby starburst galaxy J082354.96. Visible as a small, sparkling hook in the dark sky, this…
Using ALMA, scientists have detected signs of star formation near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Astronomers using the…
Using the Keck II Telescope, scientists analyzed data in the near-infrared range of light from Europa, finding that peroxide is widespread across much of the…
In a new study, astronomers witnessed the effects of a white dwarf bending the light of its companion star in a double-star system called KOI-256,…
The Hubble Space Telescope has broken the record in the search for the farthest supernova, finding Supernova UDS10Wil that exploded more than 10 billion years…
A new proposal using a technique called gravitational microlensing combined with data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope has researchers at The University of Auckland anticipating…
A sequence of seven images shows how the parachute used in Curiosity’s landing on Mars has shifted in response to wind. Photos from NASA’s Mars…
AMS announced the first results in its search for dark matter, reporting the observation of an excess of positrons in the cosmic ray flux. Geneva…
New Chandra observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud have resulted in the first detection of X-ray emission from young stars with masses similar to our…
New research led by Brown University suggests that pre-existing mineralogy on the Moon can survive large impacts and impact melts. Large impacts on the Moon…
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers image the nearby rich young cluster, Cep OB3b. They found that some of the stars have lost their disks,…
Using new computer simulations to follow the motions of as many as 100 million “stellar particles” as gravity and other astrophysical forces sculpt them into…
Using ESA’s Integral space observatory, astronomers discovered and watched a black hole in galaxy NGC 4845 feed on a low-mass object that strayed too close….
The remnant of Supernova 1987A continues to provide a wealth of information about one of the Universe’s most extreme events and now astronomers have made…
Astronomers have used NASA’s Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), revealing that ISON is shedding about 112,000 pounds (51,000 kg) of dust…