Slow-Growing Galaxies Help Reveal How the Very First Stars in Our Universe Formed
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…
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…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics studied the debris disc around τ Ceti, revealing that a Jupiter-mass planet could not be present in this…
This ESA image of the week shows the remains of a dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun. Known…
New data from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals evidence of basaltic volcanism on the Moon occurring within the past 100 million years. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance…
This newly released Hubble image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula, which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The brightly glowing plumes seen…
NASA is preparing its science fleet for comet Sliding Spring’s close encounter with Mars, which will occur on October 19 when Sliding Spring passes within…
A team of astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a turbulent planet outside…
New research from the University of Western Australia reveals that the amount of dark matter in the Milky Way is half as much as previously…
In a new study, a team of astronomers reveals that the black hole known as P13 is consuming gas from a nearby star 10 times…
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astronomers have detected the brightest pulsar to date, located about 12 million light-years away in the galaxy Messier 82….
Images by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal the existence of a large impact crater on the unseen side of the Lutetia asteroid. Rosetta flew past Lutetia…
Using the three most powerful optical telescopes in the world, astronomers from Swinburne University have focused on a single point in the sky to test…