Volunteers Find 1 Million Potential Debris Disks and YSO Disks
A short video details how volunteers using a NASA-sponsored citizen science website made 1 million potential planetary nursery classifications in less than a year. A…
A short video details how volunteers using a NASA-sponsored citizen science website made 1 million potential planetary nursery classifications in less than a year. A…
Scientists have validated eight more candidate planets and added another 554 candidates to the roll of potential planets, six of which are near-Earth-size and orbit…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics reveals why oceans on super-Earths, once established, can last for billions of years. For life…
Using Hubble’s Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, new research presented at the 225th American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle reveals the velocity and composition of gas in…
Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has detected a record-breaking outburst from a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy….
This new panoramic image from the Hubble Space Telescope is the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our galactic next-door neighbor – the Andromeda…
Hubble has revisited the Eagle Nebula, providing astronomers with a sharper and wider view of the famous “Pillars of Creation.” Although NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope…
This Mars Express image shows a region of Mars filled with cliffs, trenches, faults, giant plateaus, and volcanoes. Although Mars is a very alien planet,…
This newly released Hubble images shows star R Sculptoris, a red giant located 1,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Sculptor. Recent observations have…
A team of astronomers has revealed a new set of calculations for catastrophic disruptions of main belt asteroids, finding that for asteroids about one hundred…
After 87 months in space, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is currently 400,000 miles from Ceres and has entered its approach phase toward the dwarf planet. NASA’s…
This newly released Hubble image shows globular cluster NGC 6535. This image captures the stunning NGC 6535, a globular cluster 22,000 light-years away in the…
As 2014 comes to a close this short video and pictures look back on a few of the events that took place this year at…
After 20 years, NASA’s Wind spacecraft is still going strong and helping scientists understand the forces that buffet near-Earth space. The end of 2014 marks…
This ESO image shows star cluster Messier 47, which is located roughly 1,600 light-years from Earth. This spectacular image of the star cluster Messier 47…
This newly released NASA image shows an area on the surface of Mars (approximately 1.5 by 3 kilometers or 0.9 by 1.9 miles in size)…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a study of active star-forming galaxies, revealing a large deficit in the number of ULXs detected….
Despite a malfunction that ended its primary mission in May 2013, NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is still alive and working and has detected a newfound planet,…