Readying for Curiosity’s Grand Entrance, William Shatner Narrates NASA’s New Video
As the world readies for Curiosity’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” landing on Mars, William Shatner walks us through the process and details in this 4…
As the world readies for Curiosity’s “Seven Minutes of Terror” landing on Mars, William Shatner walks us through the process and details in this 4…
After 8 and a half days of observations of the spiral galaxy M83, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays from the remains of…
In a series of seven papers published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement, a NASA/Stanford team reported the astronomical issues involved with the analysis of testing…
Launched just over twenty years ago, the joint Geotail mission satellite is still operational and sending back crucial information about how aurora form, how energy…
This NASA image of the day shows the differences between orbits of a typical near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous asteroid, or PHA. The Hustle…
Discovered in March 1786 and located in the constellation of Virgo, NGC 4700 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy and is about 50 million…
While examining detailed images of Martian impact craters from the HiRISE camera, Western University scientists discovered further evidence for the interaction between subsurface volatiles and…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope to study a sample of 71 O-type single stars and stars in pairs in six nearby young star clusters in…
Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. Located at the center of this system…
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed…
After entering safe mode on July 11th, NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft is now operating normally and used a six second thruster burn to adjust its…
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science are focusing on an old type of meteorite called diogenites to gain a better understanding of the earliest…
By employing new optimal algorithms on their ATLAS computer cluster to help go through Fermi data, scientists from the Max Planck Institute discovered the 5,000…
While studying TW Hydrae, a relatively young star in the TW Hydrae stellar association, astronomers were able to track an accretion flare spectroscopically, providing direct…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of globular star cluster Messier 107, which is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus. The NASA/ESA…
With a resolution that is roughly five times more detailed than the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument flying aboard NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA’s High Resolution…
Using radio telescopes, a team of scientists at Keio University has discovered several intermediate-mass black hole candidates, which are considered to be the “seeds” that…
Using images taken from Cassini-Huygens, a team of researchers analyzed and mapped 52 prominent liquid methane river networks from four regions on Saturn’s moon Titan,…