A team of US researchers has found new evidence that early Mars was saturated with water and that its atmosphere was considerably thicker, at least 20...
European astrophysicists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once...
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a new image of the Egg Nebula, a bipolar preplanetary nebula located about 3,000 light years away.
The Egg Nebula...
A team of researchers analyzing new data from NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft has found that a region on Titan called Ontario Lacus is very similar to the...
An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 4980, located around 80 million light years away in the constellation of Hydra.
Spiral...
Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, using images from NASA’s two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO-A and STEREO-B)...
A team of scientists using long observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested a massive star that became the Cassiopeia A supernova...
On March 17, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission, orbiting Mercury, capturing nearly 100,000 images, and recording data that shed...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy.
Hubble...
An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational...
The ESA-NASA Planck spacecraft has returned new remarkable images showing previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up view of the brightest distant ‘magnified’ galaxy known to date.
Galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623...
Radar data from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed regional variations amongst sand dunes on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
Dune fields are common...
NASA’s Swift spacecraft has detected a gamma-ray burst, called GRB 111209A, which is one of the longest events of this kind ever observed.
The duration...
