VLT Discovers the Brightest Distant Galaxy to Date and Signs of Population III Stars
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope with help from the W. M. Keck Observatory, the Subaru Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope with help from the W. M. Keck Observatory, the Subaru Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a team of…
Using a three-dimensional atmospheric circulation model to compare a water cycle on Mars under different scenarios 3 to 4 billion years ago, researchers at Harvard…
Atmospheric scientists from MIT have developed a simple model that may predict cyclone activity on other planets. For the last decade, astronomers have observed curious…
A newly published study details the discovery of methane in Martian meteorites, a possible clue in the search for life on the Red Planet. The…
This newly released image from the Cassini Spacecraft shows two large craters on Saturn’s moon Tethys. The two large craters on Tethys, near the line…
This newly released Hubble image shows irregular blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy UGC 11411. BCD galaxies are about a tenth of the size of a…
As NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft speeds closer to the Pluto system new images of Pluto are emerging, giving a better view of Pluto’s surface features….
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers propose that helium atmospheres may be found on thousands of warm Neptune- and sub-Neptune-sized exoplanets in our…
Using NASA’s Hubble Telescope, a team of researchers has detected a stratosphere on the planet WASP-33b. A stratosphere occurs when molecules in the atmosphere absorb…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope reveals for the first time what appears to be an aging star in the early stages of forming a butterfly-like planetary…
New images taken on June 6, 2015, get a closer look at the mysterious bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres. New images of dwarf planet…
This newly released Hubble image shows galaxy NGC 6503, which is located at the edge of what astronomers call the Local Void. Most galaxies are…
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that a supermassive black hole at the center of a group of galaxies has erupted multiple times over a period…
ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign has revealed the sharpest image to date of star formation in the distant universe. ALMA’s Long Baseline Campaign has produced a…
Newly detected deposits of glass within impact craters on Mars could provide details into the possibility of past life on the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars…
This newly released image from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) shows a wide view of the Crab Nebula. The Crab Nebula, which also goes by…
This sixth video in a series celebrating Hubble’s 25th anniversary explains how Hubble has helped scientists study exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, as…
Based on observations of Ceres that were taken from NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft, a new animated video reveals a unique perspective of this heavily cratered, mysterious…