NASA’s InSight Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet
NASA’s InSight Mission will be the first mission to focus on the deep interior of Mars, boosting our understanding of how all rocky planets formed….
Astronomy News
Hubble Image of the Week – MCG+01-38-004 and MCG+01-38-005
This Hubble image of the week shows galaxy MCG+01-38-004 and galaxy MCG+01-38-005, which are located roughly 400 million light-years away. Phenomena across the Universe emit…
Astronomers Map Vigorous Atmospheric Motion in the Red Supergiant Star Antares
A team of astronomers has constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the…
Astronomers Demonstrate a Powerful New Technique for Observing Stars
Using a new algorithm to enhance observations from the Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers provide the most detailed study yet of the Pleiades star cluster. The…
Hinode Satellite Captures August 21 Eclipse Images, Video
Credit: JAXA/NASA By assembling still images from the Hinode Solar Observation Satellite, scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan…
Webb Telescope Will Study “Ocean Worlds” of Europa and Enceladus
NASA has announced that they will use the infrared capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope to study the “ocean worlds” of Jupiter’s moon Europa…
HiRISE Views Snowy Dunes on Mars
This newly released HiRISE image shows snowy dunes on the surface of Mars. It was spring in the Northern hemisphere when this image was taken…
Astronomers Detect First X-Rays From a Type Ia Supernova
Exploding stars carry cloak of dense material that puzzles astronomers. A team of astronomers has detected the first X-rays from what appears to be a…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views a Saturn-lit Tethys
In this newly released image, Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys — whose night side is illuminated by…
ESO’s VLT Discovers New Way to Fuel Black Holes
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has revealed a previously unknown way to fuel supermassive black holes. Observations of “Jellyfish galaxies” show a new way to fuel…
Astronomers Detail the Nature of Solar Brightness Variations
For the first time, researchers reconstruct and detail the two phenomena that are responsible for the fluctuation of brightness in our sun. The Sun shines…
Hubble Space Telescope Views Dwarf Galaxy NGC 178
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows dwarf galaxy NGC 178, which is located roughly 65 million light-years away. NGC 178 may be…
Large Near-Earth Asteroid Florence to Pass Earth on September 1
Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on September 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles. The large…
Astronomers Explain the Varying Glow of Brown Dwarfs
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that the varying glow of brown dwarfs over time can be explained by bands of patchy…
Harvard Astrophysicists Reveal the Origin of Binary Stars
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have concluded from a systematic study of very young cores that most embryonic stars form in multiple systems,…
Astronomers Believe Earth-Like Planet May Exist in GJ 832 System
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Texas reveal that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in the GJ 832 star system…
New JunoCam Image of Jupiter
Using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft, citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this striking Jovian vista. The tumultuous Great…
Moon’s Magnetic Field May Have Lasted 2 Billion Years
New findings from MIT suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon’s ancient churning, extending the lunar dynamo’s lifetime by at least 1 billion years….