NASA’s Swift Reveals a Star’s Plunge into a Black Hole
Using observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, a team of astronomers detail the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li. Some 290 million years ago, a star much…
Using observations from NASA’s Swift satellite, a team of astronomers detail the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li. Some 290 million years ago, a star much…
This newly released image from NASA’s high resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) shows layered deposits in Uzboi Vallis. Layered deposits in Uzboi Vallis sometimes occur…
In the search for rogue planets and failed stars astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have created a new mosaic image of the Orion…
This newly released Hubble image shows two interacting galaxies located some 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. Some galaxies are harder to…
A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris. The black hole is located…
New research reveals that the outer parts of massive disc galaxies 10 billion years ago were rotating less quickly than the spiral galaxies, like the…
Astronomers have identified three kinds of textured dust storms on Mars, and found that these textured storms have preferred seasons and locations. Astronomers studying Mars…
A new set of observations of very young galaxies show that they are completely dominated by ‘normal’ matter, suggesting that dark matter plays a much…
A newly published study details how the hydrocarbon lakes and seas of Saturn’s moon Titan might occasionally erupt with dramatic patches of bubbles. For the…
This newly released HiRISE image shows the Holden Crater on Mars. Holden Crater in southern Margaritifer Terra displays a series of finely layered deposits on…
This image is from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft as it made its final close approach to Saturn’s moon Mimas. In its season of “lasts,” NASA’s Cassini…
Since their discovery at the dawn of the Space Age, Earth’s radiation belts continue to reveal new complex structures and behaviors. This visualization shows how…
Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary outburst in the massive protostellar system NGC6334I-MM1. The outburst, apparently triggered by an avalanche of star-forming gas crashing onto the…
The above image is one of the first image pairs taken by the ExoMars high-resolution CaSSIS camera. ExoMars was launched on a Proton-M rocket from…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA’s NuSTAR and CSIRO’s Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), a team of astronomers reveals evidence for a…
A newly published study reveals that the south polar region of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus is warmer than expected just a few feet below its…
A newly published study adds evidence to one theory of how ancient black holes, about a billion times heavier than our sun, may have formed…
This newly released Cassini image shows Mimas’ gigantic crater Herschel near the moon’s limb. A big enough impact could potentially break up a moon. Luckily…