Dec 29, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have found a quartet of pronounced X-ray cavities in RBS 797, a cluster of galaxies located about...

Dec 27, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the spiral galaxy UGC 9391. This Hubble image shows...

Dec 26, 2021 by News Staff

The James Webb Space Telescope, an international partnership between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), launched at 7:20 a.m. EST (13:20 CET)...

Dec 23, 2021 by News Staff

Just two weeks after launch, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has returned its first images from space. On December 10, 2021,...

Dec 23, 2021 by News Staff

Using ultraviolet data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have detected carbon ions — charged particles that interact with magnetic...

Dec 22, 2021 by News Staff

When C/2021 A1 (Leonard), a recently-discovered long-period comet about 1 km wide, makes its closest pass of the Sun on January 3, 2022, it will be a journey...

Dec 20, 2021 by News Staff

The magnetosphere of Ganymede, the Jupiter’s largest moon, is a source of electric and magnetic radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Waves...

Dec 20, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released a beautiful image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the open star cluster NGC 1755. This Hubble image shows NGC 1755,...

Dec 16, 2021 by News Staff

On December 5, 2021, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter successfully flew to a new destination located very close to its original airfield, Wright Brothers...

Dec 15, 2021 by News Staff

University of Exeter’s Dr. Adrien Morison and colleagues have shown how vast ice forms have been shaped in Sputnik Planitia, a nitrogen-ice-filled basin...

Dec 15, 2021 by News Staff

The high temperatures and strong magnetic fields of the Sun’s upper atmosphere — the corona — form streams of the solar wind that expand...

Dec 13, 2021 by News Staff

A team of professional astronomers and citizen scientists from the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has discovered a planetary-mass object co-moving with...

Dec 13, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3568. This Hubble image shows NGC 3568, a barred spiral...

Dec 10, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers have uncovered evidence that Sagittarius A*, the 4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is not a sleeping monster...

Dec 6, 2021 by News Staff

Beta Crucis is represented in the flags of Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Samoa. Beta Crucis. Image credit: Naskies at en.wikipedia...

Dec 6, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing photo of the spiral galaxy NCG 7329. This Hubble image shows NCG 7329, a spiral galaxy located...

Dec 3, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have identified a dense, ultra-short-period sub-Earth planet transiting the bright,...

Dec 1, 2021 by News Staff

Comet C/2014 UN271 Bernardinelli-Bernstein, the largest comet ever discovered, was already exhibiting coma at heliocentric distances 23.8 and 21.2 AU,...

Nov 30, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of a planetary nebula called NGC 6891. This Hubble image shows...

Nov 29, 2021 by Natali Anderson

With an extremely short orbital period of 0.67 days (16 hours), the newly-discovered ultrahot Jupiter — named TOI-2109b — has the shortest...