NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views a Cloudy Saturn and Titan
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn and its moon Titan. Titan and Saturn have very few things in common, but a hazy appearance is…
This newly released Cassini image shows Saturn and its moon Titan. Titan and Saturn have very few things in common, but a hazy appearance is…
New research using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars. Using an imaging spectrometer on…
This newly released Hubble image shows barred spiral galaxy NGC 613. Ribbons of dust festoon the galaxy NGC 613 in this new image from the…
After monitoring 24 pulsars with the Parkes Radio Telescope for 11 years, new research casts doubt on our understanding of galaxies and black holes. For…
New Horizons gives astronomers a better view of the rich color variations of Pluto. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft continues to deliver data to astronomers, revealing new images and much more about the dwarf planet Pluto. The newest high-resolution images…
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in galaxy SAGE0536AGN. The black hole is 350 million times the mass of our sun and 30 times…
The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole has revealed some unusual activity, showing an increase in X-ray flares that coincided with the close passage of the…
New images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal in great detail a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about…
This newly released ESO image shows the rose-colored star-forming region Messier 17. This new image of the star-forming region Messier 17 was captured by the…
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has archived it second major milestone, approval of Critical Decision 2 (CD–2) authorizing the project’s scientific scope, schedule, and funding…
New research from the National Institutes of Natural Sciences shows that a previously unconsidered photochemical mechanism by titanium (IV) oxide (titania) can produce abiotic oxygen…
Remember to take a look at this weekend’s supermoon eclipse; if you don’t you will have to wait until 2033 for the next one. NASA…
Astronomers believe that radio waves coming from supersonic stars will help them find stars that no one has seen before. The center of our Milky…
This newly released Cassini image shows Prometheus and Pandora hidden in Saturn’s rings. Prometheus (53 miles or 86 kilometers across) and Pandora (50 miles or…
In a newly published study, astronomers reveal evidence for a new intermediate-mass black hole about 5,000 times the mass of the sun. Nearly all black…
Released in 2009 to commemorate the Hubble’s 19th year in space, this image of Arp 194 shows several galaxies, along with a “cosmic fountain” of…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 3521, which is located roughly 40 million light-years away. This new image of the spiral galaxy…