Sep 20, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have discovered what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen. Light from the young...

Sep 7, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a new image of a peculiar galaxy pair called Arp 116. Hubble snapped this image of the...

Sep 3, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The Hubble team has released a new image of NGC 5806, a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The image shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5806...

Aug 31, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new X-ray image of NGC 1929, a star cluster embedded in the N44 nebula, which...

Aug 30, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer have discovered millions of supermassive black hole candidates across the Universe and...

Aug 29, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system. Artist’s...

Aug 21, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. This is a Hubble...

Aug 16, 2012 by News Staff

Researchers using NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the thin atmosphere...

Aug 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A large international team of over 80 astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the South Pole Telescope, and eight other world-class observatories,...

Aug 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the first detection of X-rays from the remains of a supernova...

Aug 6, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s Mars Rover Curiosity has successfully landed in the Gale Crater on Mars. The one-ton rover touched down onto the Red Planet early Monday to...

Jul 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers have detected the first exoplanetary system with regularly aligned orbits similar to those in our Solar System. In this artist interpretation,...

Jul 26, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a very special gamma-ray pulsar. A gamma-ray pulsar...

Jul 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. This artist’s concept shows...

Jul 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered the Universe’s oldest spiral galaxy yet seen, an object that...

Jul 18, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

According to NASA scientists, the unexpected slowing of the Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft – the so-called ‘Pioneer Anomaly’ – turns out...

Jul 12, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

For the first time ever, astronomers from NASA and the University of Tübingen in Germany have detected rare noble gases krypton and xenon in the spectrum...

Jul 12, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected a fifth and tiniest moon yet orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. This image, taken by...

Jul 11, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected meteorological variations in the atmosphere of the exoplanet...

Jul 10, 2012 by News Staff

An international group of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has studied some of the smallest and faintest galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. Astronomers...