GALEX and the Hubble Reveal New Details on Colliding Black Holes
Using ultraviolet data from GALEX and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal new details about merging black holes. Entangled by gravity and destined to merge,…
Using ultraviolet data from GALEX and the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal new details about merging black holes. Entangled by gravity and destined to merge,…
NASA’s Cassini Mission reveals a global ocean beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Researchers found the magnitude of the moon’s very slight wobble,…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of Earth and the moon as they crossed the sun. Just before the moon entered the shot, Earth blocked…
NASA is testing thrusters propelled by green propellants that can provide better performance without the toxicity while helping to lower costs by eliminating infrastructure needed…
This newly released Cassini image shows that the night sides of Saturn and Tethys are dark places indeed. We know that shadows are darker areas…
This newly released Hubble image shows a pair of interacting galaxies known as NGC 3921. It is known today that merging galaxies play a large…
A newly released image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows petrified sand dunes on the surface of Mars. Some of the dark sandstone in an area…
Newly downlinked images from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features on Pluto. New close-up images of Pluto from NASA’s New…
Using data from the MESSENGER spacecraft, scientists reveal new insights about Mercury. The first measurements of Mercury’s movements from a spacecraft orbiting the planet reveal…
A newly published study examines the mystery of Io’s “misplaced” volcanoes, revealing that it has to do with the interaction between heat produced by fluid…
New research reveals that Jupiter-like planets quickly move to orbits close around their baby stars, helping astronomers better understand how planetary systems like our own…
Miniaturized satellites, known as nanosatellites or CubeSats, are small platforms that enable the next generation of scientists and engineers to complete all phases of a…
NASA’s Dawn Spacecraft provides new-up-close images of the bright spots on Ceres, revealing better-defined shapes of the central spot and features on the crater floor….
This newly released image shows the International Space Station transiting the sun. This composite image made from five frames shows the International Space Station, with…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy Messier 63, which is also known as the Sunflower Galaxy. The arrangement of the spiral arms in…
Using the multi-object spectrometer for infrared exploration at the W.M. Keck Observatory, astronomers have discovered the farthest galaxy to date – EGS8p7. A team of…
NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft has begun downlinking the data is has collected on its mission to the Pluto system. The entire process will take about…
Engineers from NASA, MIT, and Stanford are developing “hedgehog” robots that are specifically designed to overcome the challenges of traversing small bodies in microgravity by…