Apr 19, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Using observations with NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earths in the habitable...

Apr 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have captured the most detailed view yet of the supernova SN 1006. X-ray image of the SN 1006...

Feb 22, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Planetary scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proposed that Mercury may have harbored a large ocean of magma shortly after its formation...

Feb 21, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has made the first observations of a planet outside our Solar System that’s...

Oct 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

By combining observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory with infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and radio data from...

Oct 26, 2012 by Natali Anderson

A multinational team of astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured...

Oct 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has confirmed the presence of a massive planet around the nearby...

Oct 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astrophysicists using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have suggested that isolated stars kicked to the edges of space by violent galaxy...

Oct 24, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers used Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to look at the host galaxy of one of the most luminous...

Oct 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied a filament of dark matter in three dimensions for the first time. This...

Oct 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...

Oct 12, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

A multinational team of astronomers led by Dr Joel Kastner of Rochester Institute of Technology has captured stunning views of four planetary nebulae:...

Oct 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The team of astrophysicists using NASA’s Swift satellite has discovered a rare X-ray nova in our Galaxy. According to the team, this object reveals...

Oct 2, 2012 by Natali Anderson

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4183. NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy little smaller than the Milky...

Oct 2, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Curiosity rover has captured images of bedrock that suggest a fast-moving stream once flowed on the Martian surface. “From the size of...

Sep 27, 2012 by News Staff

Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, a team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory has captured the sharpest ground-based image ever...

Sep 26, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers have assembled a new portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe by combining 10 years of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observations. This...

Sep 25, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New observations made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, and Japan’s Suzaku have provided evidence that our Galaxy...

Sep 21, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of an actively star-forming galaxy known as NGC 7090. This image shows the...

Sep 21, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Opportunity photographed these small spherical...