A new four minute ScienceCast video and new Cassini RADAR Team study examine the surface…
Browsing: Space
Space refers to the vast, seemingly infinite expanse beyond Earth’s atmosphere where planets, stars, galaxies, and cosmic phenomena exist. It is a realm defined by extreme conditions—near vacuum, intense radiation, and temperatures ranging from blistering heat to freezing cold. Space exploration has revealed a universe rich with complexity, from black holes and exoplanets to the cosmic microwave background that offers clues to the Big Bang. For scientists, space is both a frontier and a laboratory, offering insights into fundamental physics, the origins of the universe, and the potential for life beyond Earth. It continues to inspire curiosity, innovation, and a deeper sense of our place in the cosmos.
New climate model research from astronomers at the University of Washington suggests that planets orbiting…
Hubble captured this image of NGC 4866, a lenticular galaxy situated roughly 80 million light-years…
The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory captured an image of a coronal hole hovering over the…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope to track the orbital motion of over 30,000 stars in…
Using the new Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope, astronomers have discovered a CO snow…
In two new studies, NASA’s Curiosity Rover reveals details about the Martian atmosphere and clues…
Update September 15, 2020: New research indicates that neutron star collisions do not actually produce…
As the search for habitable planets continues, astronomers detail how they determine which exoplanets have…
Scientists at MIT have discovered a “hidden flux” of material deep in the Earth’s mantle…
Using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, astronomers watch in real time…
This three minute video from NASA details and explains the journey of sungrazing comets, like…
By combining data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar…
While analyzing Neptune photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an astronomer discovered a new…
A newly released Hubble image shows the remains of a star known as planetary nebula…
A new model developed by scientists at NASA shows that eccentric rings in debris disks…
New research presented at the 10th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves suggests that stellar…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Telescope, astronomers studied NGC 2392 and…