Linear Gullies on Mars Caused by Sliding Dry-Ice
By examining images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and performing experiments on sand dunes in Utah and California, researchers believe that marks on the Martian…
By examining images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and performing experiments on sand dunes in Utah and California, researchers believe that marks on the Martian…
NuSTAR data reveals that the once active supermassive black hole at the center of the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is now dormant,…
Using data from the Hershel Space Observatory, researchers shed new light on hidden pools of gas, revealing their whereabouts and discovering that there is an…
First published in the XMM-Newton image gallery in 2002, this view of M101 was composed of images taken by XMM-Newton’s Optical Monitor telescope using different…
Astrium has begun development on a fully integrated payload module for ESA’s Euclid ‘Dark Universe’ Mission. The module will incorporate a 1.2 m-diameter telescope feeding…
A new three minute video from Science@NASA takes a closer look at asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon as it passed by Earth in early…
Using the Keck Observatory telescopes, researchers were able to measure Segue 2. The findings suggest that it is the least massive galaxy and one of…
In this new image, Hubble views NGC 1579, also known as the Northern Trifid. (In the enlarged photo, the upper left corner is blacked out.)…
Taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2009, this NASA image of the day shows NGC 6302, also known as the Butterfly Nebula. The…
Using Keck observations of ancient stars and models of their atmospheres, researchers have shown that there is no conflict between their lithium-6 and lithium-7 content…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers observed a dust trap in a system called Oph-IRS 48 where dust grains were trapped and could…
Data from Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has allowed researchers to confirm that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play a major role in the production…
Using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a newly published study suggests that migrating planets stop their inward journey before reaching their stars, remaining in…
By studying TW Hydrae, researchers are getting a glimpse of what happened to our Sun some four and a half billion years ago. Indianapolis, IN…
New research presented at this year’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society suggests that NGC 6334 is forming stars at a more rapid pace than…
New images from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project capture the birth and death of stars in the lesser-known areas at the outer…
A newly published study suggests that black holes were abundant among the first stars in the universe, finding that black holes are responsible for at…
Using inexpensive ground-based telescopes, researchers discovered a hot Saturn-like exoplanet when its passed in front of it host star. A scientific team led by University…