Distant Galaxy Seen As It Was 800 Million Years After The Big Bang
Using gravitational lensing, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics measured the spectra of carbon, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and water in a galaxy seen a…
Using gravitational lensing, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics measured the spectra of carbon, nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and water in a galaxy seen a…
This newly released Hubble image of comet C/2013 A1 reveals what appears to be two jets of dust coming off the location of the nucleus…
A surprise discovery shows that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and narrow rings, making it the smallest object discovered to have…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are piecing together the evolution of supermassive black holes. How do you grow a supermassive black…
Using ground-based observatories, scientists discovered a distant dwarf planet, dubbed 2012 VP113, located beyond the known edge of our solar system. Washington, D.C.—The Solar System…
A newly published study details the discovery of the closest type Ia supernova discovered in a generation, the discovery of SN 2014J in the nearby…
Hubble has released a new image of the Monkey Head Nebula to celebrate its 24th year in orbit. To celebrate its 24th year in orbit,…
An international team of astronomers has solved a decades old space mystery, revealing a new theory for how collapsed stars become polluted. Scientists from the…
Cassini views Saturn’s moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, and Epimetheus. Two pairs of moons make a rare joint appearance. The F ring’s shepherd moons, Prometheus and…
New research shows the similarities that neutron stars have with black holes. For astrophysicists, neutron stars are extremely complex astronomical objects. Research conducted with the…
In a newly published study, researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne analyzed the light given off by 580 supernova explosions in the nearby…
This newly released image combines X-ray coverage from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory with an infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to show the star-forming…
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is developing a spacecraft, which looks like a giant sunflower, to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars. This…
This newly released Hubble image uses gravitational lensing to get a better look at distant galaxy clusters. Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive…
CfA astronomers used the Submillimeter Array to probe the transition disk around Sz 91, finding that it is more like a ring than a disk…
Using more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers created a new 360-degree mosaic of…
The senior astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute believes that researchers will find life in space in this century. Are we alone in…
In a newly published study, NASA’s Van Allen Probes reveal that a persistent pattern of high-energy electrons in the inner radiation belt, which resembles slanted…