SELFI Instrument Being Designed to Study the Plumes of Enceladus
Engineers and scientists at NASA have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water…
Engineers and scientists at NASA have conceived and plan to build an ambitious submillimeter-wave or radio instrument to study the composition of geysers spewing water…
The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO) announced that it has initiated the casting of the fifth of seven mirrors that will form the heart of…
Astronomers observe a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves detected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. On August 17, the Laser Interferometry…
Five instruments from the Rosetta Spacecraft reveal the eruption of jets of dust on 67P/Chruyumov-Gerasimenko. The impressive jets of dust that comets emit into space…
Planetary missions including Galileo, Cassini and Juno, and a number of spacecraft that orbit Earth, provide observations to create a comprehensive understanding of how planets…
This sequence of images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the Sun from its surface to its upper atmosphere all taken at about the same…
ESO’s Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) instrument at has found its first exoplanet, a hot Jupiter orbiting an M-dwarf star now named NGTS-1. The planet,…
Using NASA’s NuSTAR Space Telescope and the William Herschel Observatory, astronomers have been able to measure the distance that particles in jets travel before they…
Astronomers have succeeded in measuring precisely the distance to a source on the other side of the galaxy, a region that has so far been…
Using ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray observatories, astronomers reveal that Jupiter’s intense northern and southern lights pulse independently of each other. The study, published…
This Hubble image of the week shows Abell 665, which is located in the well-known northern constellation of Ursa Major. The Universe contains some truly…
Astronomers reveal that a small, recently discovered asteroid — or perhaps a comet — has entered our solar system from somewhere else in our galaxy….
Hubble has discovered a blistering hot planet outside our solar system where it “snows” titanium oxide on the planet’s permanent nighttime side. NASA’s Hubble Space…
Researchers, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets — comets outside our solar system — orbiting a faint star…
This newly released image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small central portion of Hellas Planitia and shows a dune field with lots of…
Two new studies from NASA’s Dawn mission shed light on Ceres, revealing that the dwarf planet may have had a global ocean in the past….
The VLT Survey Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of the lenticular galaxy NGC 1316 and its rich surroundings. Countless galaxies vie for…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) views layered sedimentary deposits on the surface of Mars. The layered sedimentary deposits inside the giant canyons of Mars have…