CfA Astronomers Map Substructure in the HST Frontier Fields
Astronomers have compared the Hubble image of Abell 2744 to simulations of dark matter lensing and found excellent agreement, indicating that current models of dark…
Astronomers have compared the Hubble image of Abell 2744 to simulations of dark matter lensing and found excellent agreement, indicating that current models of dark…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars. Because the moon is so small, it appears star-like…
Biologists at Yale University recently discovered that asymmetry in plants can be caused by changes in pectin, leading to left-handed twisting of petals and other…
The international SpARCS collaboration has made the best measurement yet of the amount of fuel available to form stars in clusters of galaxies located in…
Scientists are capitalizing on a direct connection between the largest cosmic structures and the smallest known objects to use the universe as a “cosmological collider.”…
A newly published study reveals that a colossal impact with a large asteroid is a likely cause for the mysterious features found on Mars. The…
Physicists have created one precondition for using quantum cryptography to communicate over large distances as well without any risk of interception. What started out as…
NASA’s New Horizons team captured an event that’s known as an occultation on an elusive target, an ancient Kuiper Belt object known as 2014 MU69….
New research reveals that the center of our Milky Way contains a “trap” that concentrates some of the highest-energy cosmic rays. A combined analysis of…
Engineers from MIT have developed a fast, inexpensive robotic device that can find even tiny leaks in pipes with pinpoint precision, no matter what the…
New research gives the first observational evidence that the southern Amazon rainforest triggers its own rainy season using water vapor from plant leaves. The new…
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 Citizen Science Project has discovered its first substellar object, WISEA J110125.95+540052.8 – a T5.5 brown dwarf located approximately 34 pc…
A team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge has discovered the smallest star to date. The star is about the size of Saturn….
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft views Enceladus’ intriguing south-polar jets from afar, backlit by sunlight while the moon itself glows softly in reflected Saturn-shine. Observations of the…
NASA scientists, with the help of the Van Allen Probes mission, have recorded the eerie sounds made by different plasma waves in the particle symphony…
This Hubble image of the week shows galaxy NGC 4242, which is located 30 million light-years away. Tucked away in the small northern constellation of…
Researchers from MIT and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity,…
Using data from New Horizons and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, NASA scientists have created two flyover movies that offer…