New Color Map of Ceres Reveals Surface Diversity
A new color map of Ceres reveals the differences in morphology and color across the surface of the dwarf planet, suggesting Ceres was once an…
A new color map of Ceres reveals the differences in morphology and color across the surface of the dwarf planet, suggesting Ceres was once an…
This Hubble image of the week shows elliptical galaxy NGC 2865, which is located roughly 100 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
A newly published study reveals that Nova Vul 1670 is not only rich in molecular species, its gas has dramatically unusual isotopic abundances (that is,…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have detected the presence of complex organic molecules in a protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, indicating that…
A newly published study brings scientists one step closer to understanding the close familial relationship between Earth and the moon. College Park, Maryland – Scientists…
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft completed 1,000 orbits around the Red Planet on April 6, four-and-a-half months into its one-year primary mission….
New research provides the most complete picture yet of how galaxies like the Milky Way grew over the past 10 billion years into today’s majestic…
New research examines what creates the magnetic bands on the Sun and how they influence solar cycles, revealing that the changes in the magnetic field…
As NASA scientists explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Water is but one piece of…
A newly published study reveals that supernova remnant 3C 397 is the remains of a single white dwarf that accumulated matter from a normal companion…
This newly released Hubble image shows the center of the globular cluster Messier 22, also known as M22. Globular clusters are spherical collections of densely…
Astronomers have identified eight galaxies with bright active nuclei that have illuminated material far outside the radius of the galaxy. The eerie structures have looping,…
By using data from ESA’s Herschel and Planck space observatories, astronomers have discovered what could be the precursors of the vast clusters of galaxies that…
In a new study, astronomers used mathematical analysis and simulations to show that it is possible for a rocky planet to form around binary stars….
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals that magnetic fields influence star formation on a variety of scales, from hundreds of…
A series of observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how dark blast zones from the Curiosity rover have faded inconsistently. The High Resolution Imaging…
This newly released Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3021, which lies about 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo Minor. Among…
New VLT observations confirm that the dusty gas cloud G2 made its closest approach to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky…