Ultrafine Loops of Solar Material Scattered on the Sun’s Surface
Using images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Solar Telescope to study the sun and the dynamics behind solar explosions, scientists discovered narrow…
Using images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Solar Telescope to study the sun and the dynamics behind solar explosions, scientists discovered narrow…
Scientists have completed their search for the existence of knots in the fabric of space using data from NASA’s WMAP satellite, finding no evidence of…
By examining nearby galaxies for signs of reionization, international researchers gained important insight about the Universe and how it emerged from the “dark ages.” An…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently detected a solar flare that produced enough gamma rays to briefly make the sun the brightest object in the…
NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, providing researchers with sharp images of black…
By examining data from NASA’s Voyager and Galileo missions and incorporating infrared data obtained from telescopes on Earth, astronomers discovered that the heat pouring out…
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…