NASA’s LRO Views Solar Eclipse as Seen From the Moon
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured an image of the Moon’s shadow over a large region of the United States during the total solar eclipse…
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Hands-On Tests at Sandia’s Z Machine Contradict Black Hole Models
Hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine contradict a long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes. Z, the most…
Astronomers Detect Magnetic Field in Distant Galaxy
Using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years…
Cassini Spacecraft Images Provide “Inside-Out” View of Saturn’s Rings
This newly released movie sequence of images from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft offers a unique perspective on Saturn’s ring system. Cassini captured the images from within…
Engineers Are Working on Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE)
Scientists are working on a rover that might be able to better explore Venus. The planet’s hellish atmosphere creates pressures that would crush most submarines….
Cassini Spacecraft Views Turbulent Clouds at the Top of Saturn
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows turbulent clouds are on top of the world at Saturn. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this view…
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….
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
Credits: 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
A team of astronomers has detected the first X-rays from what appears to be a type Ia supernova inside the spiral-shaped galaxy ESO 336-G009, about…
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…