Large Near-Earth Asteroid Florence to Pass Earth on September 1
The large near-Earth asteroid named Florence will safely pass by Earth on September 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles (7.0 million…
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Astronomers Explain the Varying Glow of Brown Dwarfs
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that the varying glow of brown dwarfs over time can be explained by bands of patchy…
Harvard Astrophysicists Reveal the Origin of Binary Stars
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have concluded from a systematic study of very young cores that most embryonic stars form in multiple systems,…
Astronomers Believe Earth-Like Planet May Exist in GJ 832 System
In a newly published study, researchers from the University of Texas reveal that an Earth-like planet may be lurking in the GJ 832 star system…
New JunoCam Image of Jupiter
Using data from the JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno Spacecraft, citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran created this striking Jovian vista. The tumultuous Great…
Moon’s Magnetic Field May Have Lasted 2 Billion Years
New findings from MIT suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon’s ancient churning, extending the lunar dynamo’s lifetime by at least 1 billion years….
NASA CubeSat Mission Receives Funding to Solve Venusian Mystery
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has received funding to advance a CubeSat mission concept revealing the nature of the mysterious ultraviolet absorber in the uppermost…
AOF and MUSE Provide Sharp Views of Planetary Nebulae and Galaxies
The Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has now been transformed into a fully adaptive telescope, providing a spectacular improvement in…
Scientists Watch the Sun Stop Its Own Solar Eruption
A team of astronomers watch as a failed solar eruption occurs on the surface of the Sun, leaving astronomers with a wealth of data captured…
Cassini Spacecraft Views “Cloudy Waves” on Saturn
This newly released Cassini image shows clouds on Saturn that have taken on the appearance of strokes from a cosmic brush thanks to the wavy…
Astronomers Reveal TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System is Older Than Our Solar System
Scientists now have a good estimate for the age of the TRAPPIST-1 system, revealing that it is up to twice as old as our own…
Hubble Image of the Week – A Distorted Duo
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows galaxy IC 1727, which is currently being twisted and pulled by its near neighbour NGC 672….
NASA’s Curiosity Watches Clouds Move Across the Martian Sky
New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover show wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth’s ice-crystal cirrus clouds moving across the Martian sky. These clouds are the…
Astronomers Reveal Properties of a Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe
A submillimeter study of a different massive dusty galaxy in the early universe uses carbon monoxide gas to characterize the interstellar medium and determine the…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close…
Get Ready to Explore the August 21 Total Solar Eclipse
Prepare for the total solar eclipse that will travel over parts of North America on August 21, 2017 with help from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for…
Cassini Spacecraft Views Prometheus and the Ghostly F Ring
This new image from the Cassini Spacecraft shows Saturn’s moon Prometheus near Saturn’s narrow F ring. The thin sliver of Saturn’s moon Prometheus lurks near…
Hubble Image of the Week – Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5949
This Hubble image of the week shows dwarf galaxy NGC 5949, which is located roughly 44 million light-years away. The subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble…