NASA’s IRIS Provides Unprecedented Images of Sun
New data from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer is making it possible to study the explosive phenomena in the region located between the surface of…
New data from NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrometer is making it possible to study the explosive phenomena in the region located between the surface of…
A new study from an international team of researchers has measured the lowest dust mass of a galaxy to date, leaving the researchers to believe…
This newly released Hubble image shows several galaxies in the constellation of Eridanus. This new Hubble image shows a handful of galaxies in the constellation…
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that is unlike anything in our own Solar System. HD 106906 b has 11 times the mass of Jupiter and…
New research reveals the explosive growth of a young star, detailing that the newly formed star had such an explosive growth that it was initially…
Using Hubble’s high-performance Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers have peered into the atmospheres of five distant exoplanets, finding faint signatures of water in their atmospheres….
Using data from radio and millimeter observations of GRB 130427A, CfA astronomers have confirmed the signature of the reverse shock in GRB 130427A, and determined…
This newly released Hubble image shows polar ring galaxy NGC 660, which is thought to harbor exceptionally large amounts of dark matter. This new Hubble…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft views Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. The sunlit edge of Titan’s south polar vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon’s…
A newly published study details how the surface of a neutron star heats up, identifying previously unknown layers where nuclear reactions within the crust cause…
In this image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views irregular galaxy ESO 149-3 and other more distant galaxies. This sprinkling of cosmic glitter makes up the…
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Rochester use computer simulations to show how the stars at the center of the Milky…
Using data from the Gemini Observatory, researchers discovered that a small black hole can sustain a hugely voracious appetite while consuming material in an efficient…
The NASA image of the day shows the supermassive black hole at the center of spiral galaxy M81. At the center of the spiral galaxy…
A new ESO image explores the Large Magellanic Cloud and an area nicknamed the Dragon’s Head Nebula. The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the…
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward at 1000 times the speed of sound is heating…
Kepler mission and Ball Aerospace engineers believe they have figured out how to get the Kepler Spacecraft working again. By maneuvering the spacecraft so that…
This new Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 4921. How far away is spiral galaxy NGC 4921? Although presently estimated to be about 310…