NASA’s NuSTAR Delivers Unique X-Ray Images of the Cosmos
The first batch of data from NASA’s NuSTAR is now publicly available, providing data on observations obtained during the first two months of the mission…
Astronomy News
Astronomers Discover ‘Trojan’ Asteroid Sharing the Orbit of Uranus
Astronomers from the University of British Columbia have identified a 60-kilometer-wide (37-mile-wide) asteroid that shares the orbit of Uranus. UBC astronomers have discovered the first…
Hubble Views a Protostar in a Very Early Evolutionary Stage
This composite Hubble image shows IRAS 20324+4057, a protostar in a very early evolutionary stage. This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a…
Chandra Views Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole Rejecting Food
Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers found that less than 1% of the material in the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole’s gravitational grasp…
Cassini Reveals a Rigid and Weathered Ice Shell on Titan
Using new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists from UC Santa Cruz discovered a negative correlation between the gravity and topography signals on Titan, indicating…
Einstein@Home Project Discovers 24 New Pulsars in Archival Data
Using the combined computing power of 200,000 private PCs, the Einstein@Home project discovered 24 new pulsars in archival data. The combined computing power of 200,000…
Astronomers View a Rare Multiple Quasar Imaging Event Caused by a Gas Cloud
Scientists view a rare multiple quasar imaging event caused by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in the Milky Way Galaxy. For the…
Astronomers Identify the Oldest Solar Twin Known to Date
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have identified the star HIP 102152 as the oldest solar twin known to date. An international team led by…
Curiosity Rover Uses Autonomous Navigation for the First Time
NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully used autonomous navigation for the first time this week. Pasadena, California – NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for…
Scientists Detect Magmatic Water in Bullialdus Crater on the Moon
A team of researchers has found evidence of water locked in mineral grains on the surface of the moon from an unknown source deep beneath…
A Link Between Black Hole Accretion Rate and Star Formation Rate
By comparing data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared observations by the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes, astronomers discovered an almost linear relationship between…
Spitzer Space Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is celebrating its tenth year in space, where it has studied comets and asteroids, scrutinized planets and galaxies, and even discovered…
Scientists Believe Humans Will One Day Colonize the Universe
A new study from the University of Oxford looks at the possibility of human colonization throughout the universe. Scientists as eminent as Stephen Hawking and…
Asteroid 1998 KN3 Zips Past the Orion Nebula
This NEOWISE image shows asteroid 1998 KN3 as it zips by the Orion nebula. This image shows the potentially hazardous near-Earth object 1998 KN3 as…
Astronomers Anticipate Comet ISON’s Close Flyby of Mars
This short ScienceCast video details the close encounter Comet ISON is expected to have with Mars. A new ScienceCast video anticipates Comet ISON’s close flyby…
Astronomers Observe a Possible Planet-Forming Disk around the Young Star RY Tau
Astronomers used the Subaru Telescope to observe a disk around the young star RY Tau, finding that a “fluffy” layer above the disk appears to…
5,000 Light Year Long Jet of Superheated Gas Ejected From a Supermassive Black Hole
Using more than thirteen years observations from Hubble, astronomers have created a time-lapse movie of a 5,000-light-year-long jet of superheated gas as it is ejected…
Hubble Views a Cosmic Optical Illusion
This newly released Hubble images shows irregular dwarf galaxy PGC 16389, galaxy APMBGC 252+125-117 and many other more distant galaxies. At first glance, this Hubble…