Research Shows Black Holes Can Block the Formation of New Stars
A new study from Johns Hopkins University reveals that massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block the formation of new…
A new study from Johns Hopkins University reveals that massive black holes spewing out radio-frequency-emitting particles at near-light speed can block the formation of new…
A new laser-based technology known as the green astro-comb will allow astronomers to determine whether distant exoplanets they discover are rocky Earth-like worlds or less…
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured new images of comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, resulting in the first resolved image of the nucleus of a…
Using laser light and intense magnetic fields, an international team of scientists has simulated astrophysical jets in a laboratory environment for the first time. Astrophysical…
Using observations from the recently launched Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, astronomers found new clues to the mystery of coronal heating. Cambridge, Massachusetts – Why is…
This new Hubble image of the week shows NGC 4526, which is one of the brightest known lenticular galaxies. This neat little galaxy is known…
This new image captured on October 8, 2014 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows active regions on the sun combining to look something like a…
Using the gravitational lensing power of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, Hubble has detected one of the farthest, faintest, and smallest galaxies ever seen. The small…
New data from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveal that Saturn’s moon Mimas may have a liquid water ocean beneath the moon’s impact-battered surface. A new study…
New research from the University of Leicester provides the first potential indication of the direct detection of Dark Matter. Space scientists at the University of…
This mosaic from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft shows a close up view of landing “Site J” – the primary landing site on comet…
Using data from the Herschel mission, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Galaxy Evolution Explorer, astronomers make some of the most accurate measurements yet of…
The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered three potential targets for the New Horizons spacecraft to visit after it flies by Pluto in July 2015. The…
NASA’s MAVEN mission has provided scientists with their first look at the upper atmosphere of Mars. NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has…
This new image from ESA’s Philae lander shows one of the 52-foot-long (16-meter-long) solar arrays from the Rosetta spacecraft with comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko hovering in the…
Taken this past summer, this Cassini image shows Saturn’s moon Tethys through several of Saturn’s rings. Like a drop of dew hanging on a leaf,…
Using data from the Russian spacecraft RadioAstron, astrophysicists are one step closer to figuring out the mysteries of our galaxy’s core. Is matter falling into…
By using radio telescopes from across Europe and America, an international team of astronomers has been able to see into the heart of an exploding…