Jul 5, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have found that Saturn’s moon Titan likely harbors a layer of liquid water under its ice shell. This...

Jul 4, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers combining data from the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, the ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory...

Jul 4, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of Herbig-Haro 110, a geyser of hot gas flowing from a newborn star. Hubble...

Jun 27, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster...

Jun 27, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA scientists have announced that Voyager 1 probe is nearing the very edge of the Solar system. Photograph of one of the two identical Voyager space...

Jun 26, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists, using images collected over several years by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, have discovered that the heat from within Saturn powers turbulent...

Jun 22, 2012 by News Staff

Ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton crater at the Moon’s south pole, recent data from NASA’s Lunar...

Jun 22, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized planet...

Jun 15, 2012 by News Staff

New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have challenged prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. NGC...

Jun 13, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology using Kepler Telescope data from two stars in our galaxy has created sounds for a national recording...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), an international team of scientists has discovered about 200 brown dwarfs, including a few...

Jun 8, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what they believe is the faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in...

Jun 6, 2012 by James Freeman

Analyzing data from several telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, an international team of astronomers has discovered a massive...

Jun 1, 2012 by News Staff

Using data from ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have detected a long-sought X-ray echo that promises a new way to probe supermassive black holes...

Jun 1, 2012 by News Staff

Astronomers, using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have predicted with certainty the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy with the...

May 30, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An American-Canadian team of scientists has discovered a rare landscape that appears to be very similar to one of Jupiter’s icy moons, Europa. Europa,...

May 24, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has taken a memorable view of a large Martian crater. Late afternoon shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars,...

May 18, 2012 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent...

May 18, 2012 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. Three...

May 16, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon...