Hubble Image of the Week – LMC and the Honeycomb Nebula
This Hubble image of the week shows one of the largest and most intense regions of active star formation and the intriguing structure of stacked…
This Hubble image of the week shows one of the largest and most intense regions of active star formation and the intriguing structure of stacked…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy NGC 4874 and many more distant galaxies that do not belong to the cluster. In the center…
New research sheds light on how certain types of comets influence the lopsided bombardment of Mercury’s surface by tiny dust particles called micrometeoroids. Mercury, our…
Different methods of studying cosmic expansion yield slightly different results, including for the age of the universe. In a new study, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, Comet K2. Coming from the distant Oort Cloud, K2 is visiting our inner solar system…
Ten years ago, NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft set sail for the two most massive bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter: giant asteroid Vesta…
New research untangles many of the processes involved in shaping Earth, revealing that the mini-planets that added to Earth had previously undergone melting and evaporation….
Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves with both the LIGO and Virgo detectors….
This new ESO image shows planetary nebula NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, as it emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles….
This newly released ESO image shows spiral galaxy NGC 1964, which resides approximately 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Lepus (The Hare). NGC…
This short ESOcast video explains why astronomers need radio telescopes like ALMA to understand phenomena in some of the dustiest and most distant regions of…
This Cassini Spacecraft image shows the brightly lit limb of a crescent Enceladus looking ethereal against the blackness of space. The rest of the moon,…
Next Summer NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than any other in human history. Parker…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows galaxy ESO 376-16, which is located roughly 23 million light-years from Earth. The distances to objects…
NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP) is investigating charged particles to solve one of its biggest challenges for a human journey to Mars: space radiation and…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft captured this striking image of Jupiter as it performed its eighth flyby of the gas giant planet. The image was taken on…
Using radio and X-ray data, astronomers reveal that the mini-halo in the Perseus cluster seems to be influenced both by the AGN activity and the…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that fast radio bursts should occur over the entire observable universe, with at least one FRB…