NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to Study Portals in Earth’s Magnetic Field
Set to launch in 2014, NASA is planning the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to study X-points or electron diffusion regions, places where the magnetic field of…
Set to launch in 2014, NASA is planning the Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission to study X-points or electron diffusion regions, places where the magnetic field of…
Scientists are working on a directional dark matter detector that will use strands of DNA and gold in order to detect the elusive non-baryonic matter….
Scientists have been monitoring radio signals from the galaxy Arp 220, located 250 million light years from Earth, and now believe the radio emissions may…
Based on data from the Hinode satellite, a newly published study provides the first evidence of plasma upflows traveling at around 20 km per second…
NASA’s SUMI rocket mission is set to launch this week from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, testing the technologies that have been developed…
Using three different telescopes, scientists found evidence of a pulsar moving at a speed between 5.4 million and 6.5 million miles per hour at a…
As an international team of astronomers continues to monitor the skies for approaching asteroids, the recent approach of a 23-foot-wide asteroid gave scientists an opportunity…
A new image made up of exposures taken in visible and infrared light by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows galaxy DDO 82, which is…
By using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft to measure variations in the gravitational pull of Titan, researchers were able to determine Titan’s internal structure, finding…
Using a new method that involves studying the carbon monoxide signature of a planet’s atmosphere, scientists were able to measure the exact mass of a…
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, CfA astronomers led a team in search of molecular oxygen in the Orion Nebula, reporting that they still did not…
Similar to Jupiter, exoplanet HD 189733b is a gas giant that circles its star, named HD 189733A, at a distance of only 3 million miles…
The hunt for gravitational waves continues to move forward as theoretical studies and enhancements to gravitational wave detectors help guide researchers. Astronomers have long relied…
While monitoring the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, astronomers discovered an ionized gas cloud with a…
Astronomers have discovered an arc of light behind a galaxy cluster that is 5 to 10 times larger than other clusters from that early of…
By combining deep-space observations with the powerful Lonestar supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, astrophysicists hope to make revolutionary discoveries about dark matter. From…
At the edge of the solar system, Voyager 1 is reporting a sharp increase in cosmic rays that could herald the spacecraft’s long-awaited entry into…
Using automated cloud tracking software to analyze the movements and speeds of clouds seen in hundreds of Cassini images from 2005 through 2012, scientists have…