WISE Observations Provide Crucial Information on Brown Dwarfs
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers recently discovered a small group of brown dwarfs located less than 30 light years away from the sun….
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers recently discovered a small group of brown dwarfs located less than 30 light years away from the sun….
Using X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio observations from the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers studied two black hole…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one and now astronomers from Penn State have precisely…
As scientists continue to review data from NASA’s dawn Mission, a new video adds color to highlight differences in surface composition that are too subtle…
In case you missed it, here is video footage of the 2012 Venus transit from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. Launched on February 11, 2010, the…
With the Venus transit set to occur, researchers will also be studying the Arc of Venus to better under why our sister planet’s atmosphere evolved…
1,200 years ago, tree rings recorded an abnormally large radiation burst. It’s even more mysterious since this spike in carbon-14 levels indicates a massive cosmic…
Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that a supermassive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of at least…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the butterfly-shaped cloud of glowing gas and dust that is the wreckage of a star similar…
Tomorrow, June 5, 2012, will provide astronomers and enthusiasts with a chance to view a very rare phenomenon known as the Venus Transit, which doesn’t…
The Cassini-Huygens mission uncovered some strange phenomena on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Located far from Sol and an unlikely candidate to find liquid water, scientists found…
It’s been known for years that the Andromeda galaxy would collide with the Milky Way, two of the largest galaxies in the Local Group, in…
Limited by today’s telescope technology, an international team of astronomers searched for another way to probe supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. By analyzing data…
In an attempt to better understand the sun and the space weather system that surrounds Earth, scientists are gathering information and looking at a unique…
Using observations made with radio telescopes, astronomer Dr. Braun has discovered that the galaxies around us are hiding about a third more atomic hydrogen gas…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute believe that they now know where the methane on Mars is originating from. In their published work, the scientists…
The transit of Venus will occur on June 5 and if you miss it, you won’t get to see it again until 2117. For those…