X-Ray Echoes Demonstrate the Reality of Relativistic Reverberation
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…
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…
In an attempt to better understand the sun and the space weather system that surrounds Earth, scientists are gathering information and looking at a unique…
NASA’s GRAIL Mission, with twin probes named Ebb and Flow, has delivered over 99.99 percent of the data that was collected on the moon and…
Scientists from the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered that a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite, which is believed to be from Mars, contains reduced carbon molecules. While…
This new image of spiral galaxy ESO 498-G5 was captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and shows the disc-type bulges, or pseudobulges, that this type…
Venus is set to pass across the face of the sun in just a few days, giving astronomers around the world a view of the…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been exploring the edge of Endeavour Crater since August 2011, taking images and recording data about the environment. Like…
In preparation for the 2013 launch, scientists and engineers at NASA worked diligently to complete the magnetometers on schedule for the MAVEN mission. The magnetometers…
By combining observations from the Large Area Telescope and the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia, scientists have found a new technique for hunting pulsars. The…
SpaceX Falcon 9 completed a successful launch today, propelling a Dragon cargo capsule into orbit and showing that the private sector may indeed be ready…
A new study from a team of biologists suggests that many wild plant species are feeling the effects of global warming, even the species that…
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of galaxy NGC 891, which is part of a small group of galaxies bound together by gravity in…
This coming weekend, May 20-21, 2012 will provide us with a view of an annular eclipse of the Sun, which NASA plans to observe and…
According to calculations, an exoplanet similar in size to Mercury and roughly 1,500 light years away, is slowly disintegrating and leaving behind a trail of…
New data from NEOWISE reveals a more credible estimate of the numbers and sizes of potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, within our solar system. Observations…
New observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may help explain why some supernova explosions are more powerful than others, supporting the idea that some of…
In preparation for Curiosity’s exploration of Mount Sharp on Mars, NASA engineers took a test rover out to the desert for last-minute training in the…
To better understand how star formation and black hole activity are linked, scientists are looking back 8 to 12 billion years, a time when star…