According to a new NASA-led study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the melt rate of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of a tiny galaxy known as UGC 1281.
This image shows the dwarf galaxy UGC 1281....
A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a distant barred spiral galaxy called NGC 986.
This image shows the barred spiral galaxy...
A multinational group of astronomers led by Dr Michael Koss of ETH Zurich has discovered an exotic object in a galaxy some 90 million light-years away.
The...
If there were Martians, they likely would have witnessed thousands of shooting stars from a comet known officially as Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring, says...
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has caught a glimpse of bright sunlight reflecting off vast hydrocarbon seas and lakes near the north pole of the Saturn’s...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to probe a galactic supercluster known as Abell 2744 have found forensic evidence of galaxies that were...
On 26 September 2005, NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft received the equivalent of a 200-volt electric shock from Hyperion’s electrostatically charged surface,...
Six astronaut-like members of NASA’s Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS) team have embarked on the longest dedicated space travel...
An international group of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced a global weather map of a hot-Jupiter exoplanet called WASP-43b,...
Data from two instruments aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have led to the discovery of a rare acid-sulfate mineral deposit on Mars, providing...