New NASA Video Explores Strange Flames on the ISS
A new four minute video from Science at NASA explores the surprising behavior of “cool flames” on the International Space Station, revealing a cool-burning form…
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Hubble Views Two Galaxies Colliding
In this newly released image, the Hubble Space Telescope views two galaxies that are currently colliding to form a new one. The contorted object captured…
NASA Study Bridges the Gap Between Theory and Black Hole Observations
A newly published study bridges the gap between theory and black hole observation, confirming how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light by demonstrating that…
Hubble Reveals Evidence of a Planet Forming 7.5 Billion Miles from Its Star
Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered evidence that a planet is forming 7.5 billion miles away from its star in a vast protoplanetary…
Data Indicates Temperatures Rise and Fall Twice a Day on Mars
Data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has indicated that temperatures rise and fall twice a day on Mars, with a rise during the nighttime as…
Chandra Data Reveals 26 New Black Hole Candidates in M31
Using data from 152 observations of Chandra spanning over 13 years, researchers discovered twenty-six new stellar-mass black holes candidates in Andromeda, also known as M31….
Linear Gullies on Mars Caused by Sliding Dry-Ice
By examining images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and performing experiments on sand dunes in Utah and California, researchers believe that marks on the Martian…
Data Reveals Dormant Black Hole Amidst Stellar Chaos
NuSTAR data reveals that the once active supermassive black hole at the center of the Sculptor galaxy, also known as NGC 253, is now dormant,…
New and Improved Movie Clip of Near-Earth Asteroid 1998 QE2
A new three minute video from [email protected] takes a closer look at asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon as it passed by Earth in early…
NASA Image of the Day – The Butterfly Nebula
Taken by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2009, this NASA image of the day shows NGC 6302, also known as the Butterfly Nebula. The…
Cassini Data Confirms PAHs Play Major Role in Production of Lower Haze on Titan
Data from Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer has allowed researchers to confirm that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) play a major role in the production…
Kepler Data Reveals That Stars Don’t Eat Their Young Migrating Planets
Using data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a newly published study suggests that migrating planets stop their inward journey before reaching their stars, remaining in…
Spitzer Views Birth and Death of Stars at the Outer Edges of the Galaxy
New images from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project capture the birth and death of stars in the lesser-known areas at the outer…
NASA Data Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among the Earliest Stars
A newly published study suggest that black holes were abundant among the first stars in the universe, finding that black holes are responsible for at…
Hubble Maps 3D Structure of Ejected Material from Erupting Nova
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers used a flash of light from double-star system T Pyxidis to probe for the first time the 3-D structure…
Rare Stellar Alignment Provides Opportunity to Search for Earth-Like Planets
A rare stellar alignment will offer astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope two opportunities to search for Earth-like planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri….
NASA’s Kepler Mission Delivers New Data
NASA’s Kepler Mission delivers new data, adding 1,924 new KOIs detected over a 34-month baseline. On May 28, 2013, NASA’s Kepler mission delivered new data…
Hubble Views an Ongoing Cosmic Collision
In this new image, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope views an ongoing cosmic collision between two galaxies. This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope…
