Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of the Arches Cluster, the densest known cluster...
Using measurements of the elevation of the Antarctic ice sheet made by a suite of satellites, a group of scientists led by Dr Bert Wouters from the University...
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has beamed back a stunning new picture of the mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres.
A close-up of the mysterious...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a pancake-shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star...
Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have discovered the most luminous galaxy ever found.
This artist’s concept depicts...
A group of astronomers from the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) has witnessed a supernova smashing into a nearby white dwarf, shocking it,...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned stunning new images of Saturn and its two moons, Janus and Mimas.
This image shows Saturn’s moon Janus. Image...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an image of a titanic...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured snapshots of fledging white dwarfs beginning their slow-paced, 40-million-year migration...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of four small moons of Pluto – Hydra, Nix, Kerberos and Styx.
Hydra (red), Nix (yellow), Kerberos...
A new study published in the Geophysical Research Letters suggests the dark material on the surface of Europa – the sixth-closest moon of the planet...
Astronomers using data collected by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have found evidence of daily weather cycles on fourteen extrasolar gas giants.
An artist’s...
According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, the underlying physical process that creates ‘breaking wave’ cloud patterns...
NASA’s Dawn probe has returned the sharpest images ever seen of the mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. The images were taken 8,400 miles...
Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have imaged an unusual elliptical galaxy called NGC 3923.
This...
New observations of the remnant of Supernova (SN) 1987A from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) are confirming predictions made at...
Astronomers using NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured stunning images of a significant solar flare on May 5, 2015.
The Sun emitted an X2.7-class...
Astronomers using the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that a nearly invisible halo of hot plasma...
