New SOFIA Observations Show Ceres’ True Composition
New SOFIA observations show the true composition of Ceres, revealing that it does not appear to have the carbon-rich surface composition that telescopes previously indicated….
New SOFIA observations show the true composition of Ceres, revealing that it does not appear to have the carbon-rich surface composition that telescopes previously indicated….
A new NASA video uses more than 100 images taken by the New Horizons Spacecraft to reveal a trip to Pluto’s informally named Sputnik Planitia….
A new system called Data Civilizer automatically finds connections among many different data tables and allows users to perform database-style queries across all of them….
New X-ray images from Chandra have shown distinctly different shapes for the structures around two pulsars. By studying the shape and orientation of these structures,…
This new Cassini image features one of Saturn’s small moons. The wavemaker moon, Daphnis, is featured in this view, taken as NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made…
Researchers from MIT have developed a new model that could help scientists design materials for artificial photosynthesis. Plants and other photosynthetic organisms use a wide…
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn in a way no Earth-based telescope ever could. No Earth-based telescope could ever capture a view quite like…
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has examined slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud. “Mud cracks are the…
A newly published study provides a list of habitable zone exoplanet candidates from the Kepler Data Release 24 Q1-Q17 data vetting process. In our solar…
NASA has announced a new mission that will send an unmanned spacecraft to a large asteroid in the primary asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter….
The VISTA infrared survey telescope reveals the most detailed view of Orion A molecular cloud in the near-infrared. The new image from the VISION survey…
New images taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have revealed otherwise invisible details of our Sun, including a new view of the dark, contorted…
By modifying the metabolic pathways of yeast, chemical engineers from MIT are able to convert plant sugars into oils. MIT engineers have genetically reprogrammed a…
New research from Yale University is using data from prehistoric extinctions to teach valuable, real-world lessons about what happens to an ecosystem when its most…
Using data from Juno’s JunoCam instrument, citizen scientist Roman Tkachenko created this image of a crescent Jupiter and the iconic Great Red Spot. The image…
This Hubble image of the week shows part of the sky in the constellation of Sagittarius (The Archer). The region is rendered in exquisite detail…
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and several other telescopes, a team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic one-two punch unlike any ever…
On January 14, 2005, ESA’s Huygens probe made its descent to the surface of Saturn’s hazy moon, Titan. Carried to Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft,…