Ultraviolet Light from Stars Plays Key Role in Creating Building Blocks of Life
New research shows that ultraviolet light from stars plays a key role in creating molecules that are necessary for building other chemicals essential for life….
New research shows that ultraviolet light from stars plays a key role in creating molecules that are necessary for building other chemicals essential for life….
In preparation for looking for the first generation of galaxies, the facility has published the first catalog of extragalactic sources of contamination in one of…
This newly released Hubble Space Telescope image shows spiral galaxy NGC 278. This cosmic beauty lies some 38 million light-years away in the northern constellation…
Hubble observations have revealed a string of super-hot blobs, each with a temperature of more than 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit, being ejected from a dying star….
Astronomers have discovered a striking spiral-arm structure in the disc of gas and dust around the young star Elias 2-27. The structure is made up…
ESO’s VISTA reveals stars that are just forming within the cosmic dust of Messier 78. In this new image of the nebula Messier 78, young…
Based on a historical pattern, scientists believe they can predict the occurrence of dust storms on Mars. Global dust storms on Mars could soon become…
Astronomers have discovered a “wandering” black hole in the outer regions of a galaxy about 4.5 billion light-years from Earth. Evidence suggests this newly discovered…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have measured the orbital parameters of four-millisecond pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tuc and modeled their possible…
This newly released image shows a protoplanetary disc surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. This beautiful image, captured with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 247. NGC 247 is a relatively small spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Cetus (The…
These newly released images are the last taken by ESA’s Rosetta Spacecraft shortly before its controlled impact into the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. A new image of…
Dive into the Large Magellanic Cloud and see a visualization of LMC P3, an extraordinary gamma-ray binary system discovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope….
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has finished its Frontier Fields observations and astronomers are working to get the data out to the astronomical community. In the…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a team of astronomers reveal the first hot core to be found outside the Milky Way. A hot and…
Suspected Water Plumes Shown Erupting From Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa New findings from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope show suspected water plumes erupting from Jupiter’s icy…
New research suggests that Mercury is contracting even today, joining Earth as a tectonically active planet. Images obtained by NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry,…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 24, which is located 25 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Sculptor. NGC…