Cassini Detects Methane Lakes on Titan
Using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected methane lakes in the tropical region known as Shangri-La on Saturn’s moon Titan….
Using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected methane lakes in the tropical region known as Shangri-La on Saturn’s moon Titan….
A new study challenges prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies, finding that two supermassive black holes and their…
Using images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Solar Telescope to study the sun and the dynamics behind solar explosions, scientists discovered narrow…
Scientists have completed their search for the existence of knots in the fabric of space using data from NASA’s WMAP satellite, finding no evidence of…
By examining nearby galaxies for signs of reionization, international researchers gained important insight about the Universe and how it emerged from the “dark ages.” An…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently detected a solar flare that produced enough gamma rays to briefly make the sun the brightest object in the…
NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, providing researchers with sharp images of black…
By examining data from NASA’s Voyager and Galileo missions and incorporating infrared data obtained from telescopes on Earth, astronomers discovered that the heat pouring out…
Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers recently discovered a small group of brown dwarfs located less than 30 light years away from the sun….
Using X-ray observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and radio observations from the Expanded Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers studied two black hole…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…
NASA’s Kepler mission discovered a world where two suns set over the horizon instead of just one and now astronomers from Penn State have precisely…
With the Venus transit set to occur, researchers will also be studying the Arc of Venus to better under why our sister planet’s atmosphere evolved…
Observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory suggest that a supermassive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of at least…
Tomorrow, June 5, 2012, will provide astronomers and enthusiasts with a chance to view a very rare phenomenon known as the Venus Transit, which doesn’t…
It’s been known for years that the Andromeda galaxy would collide with the Milky Way, two of the largest galaxies in the Local Group, in…
Limited by today’s telescope technology, an international team of astronomers searched for another way to probe supermassive black holes in distant galaxies. By analyzing data…
Using observations made with radio telescopes, astronomer Dr. Braun has discovered that the galaxies around us are hiding about a third more atomic hydrogen gas…