In 1610, Galileo redesigned the telescope and discovered Jupiter’s four largest moons. Nearly 400 years…
These six infrared images of Saturn’s moon Titan represent some of the clearest, most seamless-looking…
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found—11 “normal” outer moons, and one that they’re…
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partner institutions provided today the first published report…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has achieved first light with a new adaptive optics mode…
Regardless of the amount of winter ice cover, the waters off of the Alaskan coast…
The “ghostly particle” is confirmed to have originated from a blazar, nearly 4 billion light…
Studying two rare inherited cancer syndromes, Yale Cancer Center (YCC) scientists have found that cancers…
Yale researchers have tested a new method for directly measuring synaptic loss in individuals with…
Launched nearly 15 years ago on August 25, 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope is the…
Pasadena Conference to Include New Insight into Dwarf Planet Ceres As NASA’s Dawn spacecraft prepares…
New study shows that 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond.…
The path of light from a star as it passes by a massive body, like…
The VERITAS array has confirmed the detection of gamma rays from the vicinity of a…
At first glance, it may seem as though this image was taken through a faulty…
Data collected by NASA’s Juno spacecraft using its Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument point…
This image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, acquired May 13, 2018, during winter at the…
Using the power and synergy of two space telescopes, astronomers have made the most precise…