Curiosity Rover Drives Through and Past “Dingo Gap” Inside Gale Crater
This new series of images shows NASA’s Curiosity Rover driving through and past “Dingo Gap” inside Gale Crater. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its…
This new series of images shows NASA’s Curiosity Rover driving through and past “Dingo Gap” inside Gale Crater. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is continuing its…
A new video from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope shows a 360-degree view of Saturn’s auroras. NASA trained several pairs of eyes on…
Using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, several new studies examine recurring slope lineae on Mars and possible water flows. NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars have…
Using the ANU SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, astronomers have discovered the oldest known star in the Universe. A team led by astronomers…
This newly released Hubble image shows the globular cluster Terzan 7, which is located roughly 75,000 light-years away from Earth. Named after its discoverer,…
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers discovered one of the most distant galaxies known — Abell2744 Y1. NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes…
Using a coordinated set of widely separated radio telescopes, astronomers tracked the motions of masers over a ten-year period, finding that they moved at velocities…
Using archived data, astronomers have put together a new Chandra image of Centaurus A and new results on the black holes and neutron stars in…
Astronomers from the University of Hertfordshire’s Center for Astrophysics Research have discovered a brown dwarf (ULAS J222711-004547) that has an atmosphere where the sky is…
A newly published study reveals that the early universe “warmed up” later than previously thought. A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that black…
This new image from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an impact crater about 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter that appeared at some time between…
By using precise measurements of the asteroid Itokawa, astronomers have discovered the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. ESO’s New…
Kepler data has led to the discovery of Kepler 413-b, a planet that wobbles wildly on its spin axis and in its orbit around an…
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics calibrate the strength of X-ray emission against star formation rate, finding a very good correlation. Star formation lights…
New research shows that the asteroid belt is a melting pot of objects arriving from diverse locations and backgrounds, revealing that as the planets migrated…
This newly released image from the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s hexagonal shaped jet stream. Just as Saturn’s famous hexagonal shaped jet stream encircles the planet’s…
Researchers at Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory have developed a new technique to search space dust for molecules that are critical for life. While the origin…
A newly published study states that searching for life on Earth-like planets may be a mistake and details why scientists need to consider non-Earth-like “superhabitable”…