“Cosmic Snake” Reveals the Structure of Distant Galaxies
An international team of astronomers has studied the image of a distant galaxy, 6 billion light-years away from us, warped and stretched by strong gravitational…
An international team of astronomers has studied the image of a distant galaxy, 6 billion light-years away from us, warped and stretched by strong gravitational…
The Orbital ATK Antares Rocket, with the Cygnus spacecraft onboard, launches from Pad-0A, Sunday, November 12, 2017 at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Orbital…
This newly released Hubble Space Telescope picture of the week shows the dwarf galaxy NGC 4625, which is located about 30 million light-years away in…
The Hubble Space Telescope views light from a supernova explosion in the nearby starburst galaxy M82 is reverberating off a huge dust cloud in interstellar…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), researchers from Kyoto University help explain aluminum oxide enrichment around AGB stars. Stars like our Sun eject large…
This new image taken by NASA’s Juno Spacecraft shows Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in beautiful detail. The color-enhanced view captures one of the white ovals in…
Observations from the Very Large Array (VLA) and the Chandra X-ray observatory reveal a giant collision of several galaxy clusters, each containing hundreds of galaxies….
A group of astronomers in Brazilian universities and research institutions observed a star demoted to white dwarf status because of companion. A group of Brazilian…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) came across an oddity that the spacecraft has rarely observed before: a dark filament encircling an active region (October 29-31,…
For the first time, astronomers have observed details on the surface of an aging star with the same mass as the Sun. The new ALMA…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a star that exploded multiple times over a period of more than fifty years. Supernovae, the explosions of…
Black holes make for a great space mystery. They’re so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole once it gets close…
NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt is looking for your ideas on what to informally name its next flyby destination, a…
A new study by European and U.S. researchers shows that heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn’s moon Enceladus for billions of years…
New X-ray observations show the auroras on Jupiter behave differently at each pole, making Jupiter puzzling and unlike Saturn (no known auroras) or Earth (where…
As the Cassini Spacecraft hurtled toward its fatal encounter with Saturn, the spacecraft turned to catch this final look at Saturn’s moon Pandora next to…
Astronomers found a rich molecular reservoir in the heart of an active star-forming galaxy with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Among eight clouds identified…
An international team of astronomers successfully completed the first global exercise using a real asteroid to test global response capabilities. Planning for the so-called “TC4…