NASA Space Launch System Completes Design Review, Ready to Meet the Challenges of the Journey to Mars
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review. It is the first vehicle designed to meet the…
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review. It is the first vehicle designed to meet the…
This new image of galaxy cluster MS 0735.6+7421 is part of a collection of new images released from the Chandra archive to celebrate American Archive…
Using the repurposed Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered evidence of a tiny, rocky object being torn apart as it spirals around a white dwarf…
Using three X-ray telescopes, astronomers have witnessed stellar debris being blown away after a black hole destroyed the star. This event, dubbed ASASSN-14li, is located…
Using gravitational lensing, the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed some of the earliest known galaxies — galaxies that formed just 600 million years after the…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute and the International Space Science Institute have analyzed the Ulysses interstellar dust measurements, revealing that dust particles can change…
This newly released ESO image shows a spiral disc around HD 100453, which is located 350 light-years away. ESO’s SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument installed on…
A team of astronomers has discovered the hottest and most massive double star system to date where the two components are in contact and sharing…
Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a newly published study reveals that when our solar system was born less than ten percent of the…
New research from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission provides the most definitive analyses, theories and results about local interstellar space to date. The new…
Using data collected by the K2 mission, astronomers from the University of Michigan reveal that a hot Jupiter system has two close-in planetary companions, leading…
Geologists from Brown University detail the discovery of a giant mound near the Moon’s south pole that appears to be a volcanic structure unlike any…
This new image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveals a gored clump in Saturn’s F ring. Saturn’s dynamic F ring contains many different types of features…
This newly released Hubble image shows the starburst galaxy Messier 94, which is roughly 16 million light-years away. This image shows the galaxy Messier 94,…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics studying the birth of solar systems have found thirteen stars with detectable disks, none of which is as…
New images from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft provide a close-up view of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft has begun returning its best-ever views of the…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft provides a close-up view of Pluto’s moon Charon. The sweeping mosaic above is made from the highest-resolution images that NASA’s New…
The latest image from the New Horizons Spacecraft reveals an unusual cluster of small pits and troughs on Pluto. It seems that the more we…