NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views Saturn’s Shadow
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s shadow as seen by the Cassini Spacecraft. The projection of Saturn’s shadow on the rings grows shorter…
This NASA image of the day shows Saturn’s shadow as seen by the Cassini Spacecraft. The projection of Saturn’s shadow on the rings grows shorter…
A newly published Harvard study on similar galaxies whose central active black hole nucleus is obscured has concluded that accreting streams of material into the…
By combining data from several telescopes, astronomers created this captivating new image of the Crab Nebula. The unusual image was produced by combining data from…
Astronomers have discovered a potential recoiling supermassive black hole (CXO J101527.2+625911). This recoiling black hole candidate is located about 3.9 billion light-years from Earth. Supermassive…
Using observations from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, a team of astronomers reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost…
Using the separate universe simulations technique, researchers reveal some of the most precise measurements of the local bias – confirming the known trend that more…
A new multi-wavelength image of the Crab Nebula contains data from Chandra, VLA, Spitzer, Hubble, and XMM-Newton. The Crab supernova was observed in 1054 AD…
In a newly published study, astronomers describe the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system as being in something called a “resonant chain,” which strongly stabilizes the…
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows feathery methane clouds drifting across Saturn’s moon Titan. The Cassini Spacecraft captured the image on May…
Using NASA’s NuSTAR telescope, a team of astronomers reveals that in the late stages of galaxy mergers, so much gas and dust falls toward a…
A newly published study details how astronomers developed a model that simulates the evolution of coronal mass ejections. Our ever-changing sun continuously shoots solar material…
NASA’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment captured this new image of seasonal flows on the surface of Mars. Recurring slope lineae are seasonal flows on…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft provides astronomers with a view of Jupiter’s cloud tops as it passed by the planet at a distance of roughly 52,200 kilometers…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy IRAS 06076-2139, which is located 500 million light-years away. NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope views the unusual galaxy IRAS…
NASA is reviewing 12 proposals for a future unmanned mission that will launch in the mid 2020s. The proposed missions were submitted as part of…
From February to April 2017, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover examined linear sand dunes to compare with what it found in 2015 and 2016 during an…
Using ESO/MPG telescope in Chile, a team of astronomers has detected an atmosphere around an Earth-like planet for the first time. The planet, super-Earth planet…
Hubble uses the power of gravitational lensing to get a better look at galaxy cluster Abell 370 and its several hundred galaxies that are tied…