NASA CubeSat Mission Receives Funding to Solve Venusian Mystery
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has received funding to advance a CubeSat mission concept revealing the nature of the mysterious ultraviolet absorber in the uppermost…
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has received funding to advance a CubeSat mission concept revealing the nature of the mysterious ultraviolet absorber in the uppermost…
The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed into a fully adaptive telescope, providing a spectacular improvement in…
A team of astronomers watch as a failed solar eruption occurs on the surface of the Sun, leaving astronomers with a wealth of data captured…
This newly released Cassini image shows clouds on Saturn that have taken on the appearance of strokes from a cosmic brush thanks to the wavy…
Scientists now have a good estimate for the age of the TRAPPIST-1 system, revealing that it is up to twice as old as our own…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows galaxy IC 1727, which is currently being twisted and pulled by its near neighbor NGC 672….
New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover show wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth’s ice-crystal cirrus clouds moving across the Martian sky. These clouds are the…
A submillimeter study of a different massive dusty galaxy in the early universe uses carbon monoxide gas to characterize the interstellar medium and determine the…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close…
Prepare for the total solar eclipse that will travel over parts of North America on August 21, 2017 with help from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for…
This new image from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s moon Prometheus near Saturn’s narrow F ring. The thin sliver of Saturn’s moon Prometheus lurks near…
This Hubble image of the week shows dwarf galaxy NGC 5949, which is located roughly 44 million light-years away. The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble…
New Horizons’ next target just got a lot more interesting. Astronomers believe that Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 may actually be two objects that are…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) watched an active region — an area of intense and complex magnetic fields — rotate into view on the Sun…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft viewed a storm at the southern edge of Jupiter’s northern polar region as it performed its seventh close flyby of Jupiter. This…
New research from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics examines six dense cores in a nearby star formation region, revealing that magnetic effects are primarily important…
Scientists developed a technique to identify ancient asteroid families, revealing the oldest known asteroid family in the inner region of the main asteroid belt. Southwest…
New results from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) reveal the most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the universe, and support the view that…