May 1, 2012 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered a new ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) produced by a black hole in a...

Apr 24, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Apr 20, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Apr 13, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...

Apr 11, 2012 by James Freeman

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...

Apr 9, 2012 by News Staff

Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, using images from NASA’s two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO-A and STEREO-B)...

Apr 4, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Mar 30, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned new images of Saturn’s moons Enceladus, Janus and Dione. The Cassini spacecraft took this raw image...

Mar 22, 2012 by James Freeman

On March 17, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission, orbiting Mercury, capturing nearly 100,000 images, and recording data that shed...

Mar 16, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Mar 16, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has discovered several galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational...

Feb 14, 2012 by James Freeman

The ESA-NASA Planck spacecraft has returned new remarkable images showing previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave...

Feb 2, 2012 by News Staff

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...

Jan 27, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 extrasolar planets. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, these...

Jan 25, 2012 by News Staff

Radar data from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed regional variations amongst sand dunes on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn. Dune fields are common...

Jan 8, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

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...

Dec 23, 2011 by News Staff

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the ruins of a planetary system consisting of the cores of two former giant planets orbiting around...

Dec 22, 2011 by News Staff

NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has obtained the first images of Vesta from its low-altitude orbit, according to the mission’s website. The images show...

Nov 15, 2011 by News Staff

Voyager 2 has successfully switched to the backup set of thrusters that controls the roll of the spacecraft, according to a press release from NASA’s...

Sep 7, 2011 by News Staff

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the sharpest images of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites ever taken from space. Images show the...