New NASA Video Shows a 360-Degree View of Saturn’s Auroras
A new video from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope shows a 360-degree view of Saturn’s auroras. NASA trained several pairs of eyes on…
A new video from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft and Hubble Space Telescope shows a 360-degree view of Saturn’s auroras. NASA trained several pairs of eyes on…
Researchers at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are set to test an experiment that mimics what happens when incredibly energetic particles hit our atmosphere. In…
Astronomers from the universities of Nottingham and Manchester have accurately measured the mass of neutrinos for the first time. Scientists have solved a major problem…
Using the ANU SkyMapper telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory, astronomers have discovered the oldest known star in the Universe. A team led by astronomers…
Using a coordinated set of widely separated radio telescopes, astronomers tracked the motions of masers over a ten-year period, finding that they moved at velocities…
Using archived data, astronomers have put together a new Chandra image of Centaurus A and new results on the black holes and neutron stars in…
Astronomers from the University of Hertfordshire’s Center for Astrophysics Research have discovered a brown dwarf (ULAS J222711-004547) that has an atmosphere where the sky is…
A newly published study reveals that the early universe “warmed up” later than previously thought. A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that black…
By using precise measurements of the asteroid Itokawa, astronomers have discovered the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. ESO’s New…
Kepler data has led to the discovery of Kepler 413-b, a planet that wobbles wildly on its spin axis and in its orbit around an…
Researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics calibrate the strength of X-ray emission against star formation rate, finding a very good correlation. Star formation lights…
New research shows that the asteroid belt is a melting pot of objects arriving from diverse locations and backgrounds, revealing that as the planets migrated…
A new four-minute ScienceCast video explores the strange quantum realm of NASA’s new Cold Atom Lab, the place where researchers are planning to create the…
A newly published study states that searching for life on Earth-like planets may be a mistake and details why scientists need to consider non-Earth-like “superhabitable”…
New research from the University of Bristol reveals how circumbinary planets form. Like the fictional Star Wars planet, Kepler-34(AB)b is a circumbinary planet, so-called because…
Astronomers have reconstructed the short-lived nova explosion from white dwarf MAXI J0158−744, revealing for the first time the runaway fusion reaction that triggered the blast….
ESO’s Very Large Telescope has charted the first ever map of the weather on the surface of a Brown Dwarf. An international team has made…
A newly published study details how massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a…