NASA’s Cassini Spots Lightning in Saturn’s Northern Hemisphere
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured an image of lightning striking within a huge storm that encircled Saturn’s northern hemisphere, providing scientists with a great opportunity to…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured an image of lightning striking within a huge storm that encircled Saturn’s northern hemisphere, providing scientists with a great opportunity to…
Located 33 light-years away, exoplanet candidate UCF-1.01 was discovered when astronomers studying exoplanet GJ 436b noticed slight dips in the amount of infrared light streaming…
While using the Hubble Space Telescope to take pictures and study very distant galaxies in the early universe, astronomers discovered a spiral galaxy that is…
Using three telescopes (Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile, Submillimeter Array (SMA) in Hawaii, and the Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) in Arizona) to create an interferometer,…
Designed by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a new amplifier using titanium nitride and niobium titanium nitride…
Scientists at NASA gathered records and analyzed old Droppler data to see if they could definitively figure out the source of the deceleration of NASA’s…
While analyzing the common accretion-disk model explaining how planets form in a debris disk around the Sun, scientists found that a newly proposed disk model…
Located in the constellation of Ursa Major, 21 million light-years from Earth, the Pinwheel Galaxy is roughly 70 percent larger than our own Milky Way…
Discovered on July 14, 2011, by NASA’s Swift space telescope, Swift J1822.3–1606 is a “low-field magnetar” with short X-ray bursts. Is it a magnetar or…
Mission engineers continue to ready for the August Curiosity landing inside Gale Crater and the critical seven minute period when Curiosity must decelerate from about…
A new study from scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science contradicts prevailing theories about the relationship between in carbonaceous chondrites and comets, finding that…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals part of the disc of the spiral galaxy NGC 4565, also known as the Needle Galaxy….
Using the European Space Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of scientists believes that they have detected dark galaxies by observing their glow as…
Scientists at Caltech believe a computer simulation will help researchers interpret the information that detectors collect about neutrinos and gravitational waves from supernovae and help…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a fifth moon, designated P5, orbiting Pluto that is irregular in shape and 6 to 15 miles across….
New images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show signs that the seasons are turning on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show a…
With help from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers now believe reionization is to blame for the relatively small number of stars found in the extremely…
While studying dwarf galaxies, David Nicholls from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics discovered that that the energies of the electrons in the gas…