New Technique Leads to the Discovery of 5 New Pulsars
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…
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…
Launched in 2007, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft began exploring the asteroid Vesta in 2011 and just provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant…
Over the last two years researchers have been monitoring the sand movement on Mars with the HiRISE camera. They found that even with a thinner…
While foreign objects continue to present dangers for commercial and military airliner passengers, NASA’s Aviation Safety Program is working on new technology that will use…
In an effort to test the technique of using the moon as a mirror, scientists will use Hubble to observe the transit of Venus across…
In 2011 researchers realized that they could use NASA’s Vector Electric Field Instrument aboard the Air Force’s Communications/Navigation Outage Forecast System satellite to detect Schumann…
Data captured by NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope show direct evidence of a supermassive black hole using its powerful gravitational forces to…
Star gazing fans will get to enjoy the peek display of the annual Eta Aquarid meteor shower from Halley’s Comet on the night of May…
NASA’s HiRISE spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Mars, spotted these interesting patterns, which are actually rare lava flows. This is the first time that lava…