Juno Spacecraft Captures Extraordinary View of Jupiter
This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet. This…
This extraordinary view of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft on the outbound leg of its 12th close flyby of the gas giant planet. This…
NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is one step closer to searching for new worlds after successfully completing a lunar flyby…
NASA’s Curiosity rover could soon be drilling rocks on Mars again. Engineers have been working for the past year to restore the rover’s full drilling…
The K2 Mission, an extension of the immensely successful NASA Kepler mission to search for exoplanets, has discovered nearly one hundred new exoplanets so far….
Using the unparalleled sharpness and ultraviolet observational capabilities of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has created the most comprehensive high-resolution…
One of the candidates previously found by the Kourovka Planet Search (KPS) project turned out to be the so-called hot Jupiter. The exoplanet, known as…
Astronomers have used observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) to determine that star formation in the very…
An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of…
A Yale-led research group has created the most detailed maps yet of a vast seedbed of stars similar to Earth’s Sun. The maps provide unprecedented…
As we develop more and more powerful tools to peer beyond our solar system, we learn more about the seemingly endless sea of faraway stars…
NASA’s Voyager 1 took a classic portrait of Earth from several billion miles away in 1990. Now a class of tiny, boxy spacecraft, known as…
Each and every day NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observes our Sun and relays observational data to scientists on Earth in an effort to understand…
Scientists re-examining data from an old mission bring new insights to the tantalizing question of whether Jupiter’s moon Europa has the ingredients to support life….
Galileo Galilei discovered Jupiter’s moon Europa in 1610. More than four centuries later, astronomers are still making discoveries about its icy surface. With a diameter…
At first glance, this image may resemble red ink filtering through water or a crackling stream of electricity, but it is actually a unique view…
A Multiverse – where our Universe is only one of many – might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new…
Resembling a wizard’s staff set aglow, NGC 1032 cleaves the quiet darkness of space in two in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope….
NASA is sending a helicopter to Mars. The Mars Helicopter, a small, autonomous rotorcraft, will travel with the agency’s Mars 2020 rover mission, currently scheduled…