Space-Launched Paintballs Could Possibly Deflect an Incoming Asteroid
The 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition winner, Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposed using a…
The 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition winner, Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposed using a…
This new image from Hubble shows Abell 2261, a giant elliptical galaxy located about three billion light-years away that is roughly ten times the diameter…
A team of astronomers reanalyzed data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to further examine whether the star Fomalhaut hosts a massive exoplanet, named Fomalhaut b,…
These images showcase the fine-scale structure of the atmosphere of Uranus, and contain vastly more detail than other images. The images were taken by the…
Scientists are exploring the mystery of a distant and very bright quasar that dates to less than one billion years after the Big Bang. Hubble…
Using four submillimeter telescopes working simultaneously around the globe, a team of astronomers from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and colleagues made the first detailed measurements…
This extended jet of cosmic materials, traveling near light speed, emerged from a distant galaxy. The flow is almost 2 million light-years long, at least…
Scientists at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan & Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovered that elliptical galaxy Centaurus A also shows signs of a spiral…
A newly published study shows that nearby disk galaxies unexpectedly reached their current state long after much of the universe’s star formation had ceased. A…
A new image of ring galaxy NGC 660, which is located about 40 million light-years from Earth toward the constellation Pisces, was released by the…
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows spiral galaxy NGC 3344, which is located 25 million light-years away. NGC 3344 is a glorious…
One of the widest accepted models for the Moon’s formation states that a renegade, Mars-sized planet, named Theia, slammed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago,…
New data from NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility and the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea help show the serious changes that have occurred in Jupiter’s atmosphere…
Saturn’s odd mix of mid-sized satellites are among the strangest in the outer Solar System. With widely varying densities and locations, measuring between 300 to…
Scientists using the XMM-Newton X-ray astronomy satellite discovered a new signature of a source of low-energy hadronic cosmic rays in the vicinity of the Arches…
Astronomers have uncovered a low-mass planet orbiting α Centauri B, a member of the stellar system neighboring our Solar System. Although the exoplanet is nearly…
A team of international astronomers, aided by volunteer scientists using the Planethunters.org website, discovered a circumbinary planet in a four-star system, called PH1. The discovery…
New data from WISE answers several questions about Jovian Trojans, asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter, and is the first…