Jan 10, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has used the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to collect a detailed image of the barred...

Jan 8, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers, led by Dr David Kipping of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have discovered two new extrasolar planets circling a dim, red...

Jan 8, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers, reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org), used the magnification power of the massive cluster of galaxies...

Dec 29, 2013 by News Staff

NASA’s Cassini team has released stunning new images of Saturn and its three moons – Titan, Enceladus and Rhea. Saturn. Image credit: NASA...

Dec 26, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have observed RS Puppis – a type of star known as a Cepheid variable star – over a period...

Dec 13, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered strong evidence of giant water-vapor geysers shooting off...

Dec 10, 2013 by News Staff

Researchers from NASA’s Curiosity rover mission have found evidence that there was once an ancient lake on Mars that may have been able to support...

Nov 21, 2013 by News Staff

An unusual stellar explosion observed on April 27, 2013 by NASA’s Swift satellite is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever recorded, says a multinational...

Nov 20, 2013 by News Staff

British astronomers reporting in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (arXiv.org) have found two of the oldest brown dwarfs in...

Nov 19, 2013 by News Staff

U.S. researchers reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience have found strong evidence that the Red Planet has granitic rocks. Distinctive feldspar-rich...

Nov 18, 2013 by News Staff

A new animation by NASA scientists illustrates what Mars – the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System –...

Aug 16, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have established that mature-looking galaxies existed much earlier than previously known, when the...

Jul 19, 2013 by News Staff

A large international team of researchers used Curiosity’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite of instruments to measure the abundances of different...

Jul 11, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Imaging Spectrograph has for the first time determined the true color of an extrasolar...

Jun 21, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of two interacting galaxies collectively...

Jun 17, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has reported the detection of 26 black hole candidates in Messier 31,...

May 31, 2013 by News Staff

According to a study published in the journal Science, rounded pebbles found in September 2012 by NASA’s Curiosity rover indicate that a stream once...

May 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image to date of the famous Ring Nebula, also...

Apr 24, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

NASA scientists have released the clearest view yet of the comet ISON, a newly discovered sungrazing comet that may light up the sky later this year. This...

Apr 22, 2013 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the Horsehead Nebula in infrared light. This new Hubble image...