MAVEN Spacecraft Successfully Enters Mars’ Orbit
After a 10-month journey, NASA has confirmed that the MAVEN spacecraft has successfully entered Mars’ orbit. NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft successfully…
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The Bermuda Triangle of Space: New Video Explores the South Atlantic Anomaly
This newly released six-minute video details the mysterious region known as the South Atlantic Anomaly – an area where the Earth’s inner Van Allen radiation…
Hubble Views Spiral Galaxy NGC 7793
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7793. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7793, a spiral galaxy…
Large Galaxies Gain Size by Merging with Smaller Neighbors
A newly published study examined galaxy growth, revealing that massive galaxies are much less efficient at star formation than smaller galaxies and instead grew by…
Harvard Study Confirms Distance to the Pleiades Cluster
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have completed a new distance measurement to the Pleiades Cluster, strengthening the existing astrophysical models and contradicting an…
NASA MAVEN Spacecraft Prepares for Mars Orbit-Insertion Maneuver
Launched last November, the MAVEN spacecraft is now preparing for an orbit-insertion maneuver that will allow the spacecraft to be pulled into an elliptical orbit…
New ScienceCast Video: A Colorful Lunar Eclipse
This new four minute ScienceCast video details what you can expect to see during the total lunar eclipse that is set to occur on October…
Hubble Reveals Smallest Known Galaxy with Supermassive Black Hole
A team of researchers has discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of ultra-compact galaxy M60-UCD1, making this galaxy the smallest ever found to…
International Team Explains the Mystery Behind a Rare 5-Hour Space Explosion
New international research reveals that rare gamma-ray bursts, which can last for hours, can be explained as standard explosions occurring in a region with a…
WASP-18b: A ‘Hot Jupiter’ That is Changing the Internal Structure of the Star it Orbits
A new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that a giant exoplanet, WASP-18b, is making the star that it orbits act much older than…
NuSTAR Discovers Pulsar Powering Intense Gamma Rays
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astronomers have discovered a pulsar spinning five times per second and the ultimate power source of both the high-energy…
A New Catalog of the Visible Milky Way
Astronomers used IPHAS data to create a new catalog of the visible part of the Milky Way, revealing no fewer than 219 million stars. A…
Astronomers Choose Primary Landing Site for Rosetta’s Lander
Astronomers have decided on the primary landing site where Rosetta’s Philae lander will perform in-depth measurements to characterize the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The European…
Martian Meteorite Reveals the Possibility of Life on Mars
An unusual feature embedded deep within a fragment of a Martian meteorite is helping to make the case for the possibility of life on Mars….
Astronomers Search for Trigger of Nearby Supernova
New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory is helping astronomers determine what caused SN 2014J to explode, revealing information about the environment around the star…
Crescent Mimas – Cassini Views Saturn’s Moon Mimas
This Cassini spacecraft image shows a thin sliver of Saturn’s moon Mimas. A thin sliver of Mimas is illuminated, the long shadows showing off its…
Hubble Views Two Interacting Galaxies
This newly released Hubble image shows two interacting galaxies – NGC 6872 and IC 4970. This picture, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide…
‘Hot Jupiters’ Can Force Their Host Stars to Wobble
A new study from Cornell University shows that when the “Hot Jupiters” approach their host star, the planet can force the star’s spin axis to…