VISTA Survey Reveals Hidden Secrets of Orion’s Clouds
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…
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,…
Using the Isaac Newton Telescope, a team of astronomers has discovered giant halos of photons around early Milky Way type galaxies. In order to understand…
Engineers from UCLA are developing a new electromagnetic wave router that offers unlimited bandwidth. Mobile phones and computers use electromagnetic waves to send and receive…
By analyzing minerals brought back by the 1971 Apollo mission, a new study from UCLA shows that the moon is 40 million to 140 million…
For the first time, a team of astronomers has pinpointed the location of a “fast radio burst” and have used this to identify its home…
New research reveals that five of the 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy were ripped from another galaxy – the Sagittarius dwarf. The 11…
A team of engineers at MIT has successfully designed a new 3D material with five percent the density of steel and ten times the strength,…
The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered comets plunging into young star HD 172555, which resides 95 light-years from Earth. The exocomets — comets outside our…
This newly released Cassini image shows Herschel Crater on Saturn’s Moon Mimas, revealing an indication of the size of the crater’s towering walls and central…
A new study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics finds that ultra-luminous galaxies can expel as much as a thousand solar masses per year. Galaxies…
A team of astronomers view a shadow sweeping around a gas-and-dust disk encircling the young star TW Hydrae. Eerie mysteries in the universe can be…