Cracks in Pluto’s Moon Charon Could Reveal That it Once Had an Underground Ocean
A new model will help reveal the evolution of Pluto’s moon Charon by predicting different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon depending on the…
A new model will help reveal the evolution of Pluto’s moon Charon by predicting different fracture patterns on the surface of Charon depending on the…
This newly released Hubble image shows dwarf galaxy NGC 5474, which is located 21 million light-years away. The subject of this new Hubble image is…
Using the Deep Space Network antenna and two other radio telescopes, astronomers were able to capture radar observations of asteroid 2014 HQ124 as it passed…
Using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, astronomers have identified 13 massive, dense clumps where colossal stars could form. The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered…
At this year’s meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, astronomers revealed a treasure trove of “red nugget” galaxies discovered by combing through the Sloan Digital…
A new study reveals that radio signals generated from Jupiter could help researchers scan its giant moons for extraterrestrial life. Powerful radio signals that Jupiter…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers have directly mapped out the molecular gas and dust in the host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts for the…
This new animated image from NASA’s Curiosity rover shows Mercury passing in front of the Sun. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has imaged the planet Mercury…
A new study led by Marcel Pawlowski at Case Western Reserve University pokes holes in the current understanding of galaxy formation and questions the accepted…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has recorded three X-class flares emitted from the Sun in the last two days. The sun emitted a significant solar flare,…
This newly released image reveals a sample of the 132 trans-Neptunian objects observed by ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory. ESA’s Herschel space observatory has observed 132…
A newly published study from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics follows up on Kepler’s discoveries, revealing that exoplanets can be divided into three groups: terrestrials,…
New research presented at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society reveals that harsh space weather may strip the atmosphere of any rocky planet orbiting…
This newly released Hubble image shows type II Seyfert galaxy NGC 3081, which is located over 86 million light-years from Earth. Taking center stage in…
The Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet REsearch instrument (SPHERE) has been installed on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, providing astronomers with impressive views of dust discs around nearby…
A new study from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics reveals the turbulent nature of black holes, showing that gravitational fields around black holes might…
By using refined techniques to compare the measurements of oxygen isotopes in lunar samples with those from Earth, a team of astronomers has provided new…
This new image reveals a violent, complex scene of colliding galaxy clusters more than 5 billion light-years from Earth. Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky…