How Light Looks Different on the Moon and What NASA Is Doing About It
A team at NASA’s Ames Research Center has created a simulated lunar environment to study lighting conditions experienced at the unexplored poles of the Moon….
Subaru Telescope Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy M63
This Subaru Telescope image of the week shows spiral galaxy M63, which is located approximately 24 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation…
Researchers Investigate Turbulence in Planetary Cores
New research investigates the combination of elliptical deformation of streamlines and vorticity that can lead to the destabilization of any rotating flow via the elliptical…
Harvard Study Offers New Insight on Height and Arthritis
New research reveals a genetic “switch” that changes the activity of a key skeletal gene related to height, and pinpoints a variant in the switch…
New Research Provides Clearest Evidence Yet of Majorana Particle
New research from UCLA provides the clearest evidence yet of the long-sought Majorana particle and could provide the vehicle for carrying ‘qubits’ of data in…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Gets a Better View of Saturn’s Rings
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft captured this new image of Saturn’s rings on April 10th at a distance of 1.1 million kilometers. Although the rings lack the…
NEOWISE Reveals Size Distributions of Comet Populations
Using NEOWISE data from the four-band and three-band cryogenic phases of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, astronomers reveal that large, distant comets are more…
Cassini Continues to Reveal Surprises During Its Grand Finale
The Cassini Spacecraft continues to make its unprecedented series of weekly dives between Saturn and its rings, revealing surprising details about the planet. Scientists are…
ESO Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7098
The European Southern Observatory’s image of the week gives us a closer look at spiral galaxy NGC 7098. Approximately 95 million light-years away, in the…
Yale Study Examines Evolutionary Cradle for Antarctica Marine Life
New research from Yale University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences reveals that the largely barren islands reaching north from Antarctica are actually…
Safety Tips for Viewing the August Solar Eclipse
NASA has released information and safety tips for viewing the upcoming August 21st solar eclipse. More than 300 million people in the United States potentially…
Hubble Telescope Image of the Week – Spiral Galaxy NGC 4248
This Hubble image of the week shows the clump of glowing gas, dust, and glittering stars known as spiral galaxy NGC 4248. NGC 4248 is…
New Discovery Reveals Quantum Particles Can Travel Backwards
Mathematicians reveal a unique property of quantum mechanical particles – they can move in the opposite way to the direction in which they are being…
Mars Opportunity Rover Captures Panorama Above ‘Perseverance Valley’
This new panoramic view was captured by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity before entering the upper end of a fluid-carved valley that descends the inner…
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…
Hubble Views Tiny Moon Phobos Orbiting the Red Planet
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…
Yale Biologists Discover What Causes Asymmetry in Plants
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…
SpARCS Collaboration Measures Star-Forming Material in Early Universe
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…