Hubble captures elusive, irregular galaxy
Credit: NASA, ESA and F. Bauer This image shows an irregular galaxy named IC 10, a member of the Local ...
Tag: Astronomy
NRL, Southwest Research Institute to add PUNCH to NASA’s solar mission
Credit: Graphic courtesy of PUNCH Team/Southwest Research Institute WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory researchers partnered with Southwest Research Institute ...
Research details response of sagebrush to 2017 solar eclipse
Credit: Krag Beverly The total solar eclipse's swath across Wyoming and the United States in August 2017 provided an opportunity ...
Astronomers uncover first polarized radio signals from gamma-ray burst
Discovery could give insight into how and why jets are formed in gamma-ray burstsCredit: Kitty Yeung (art) and Tanmoy Laskar ...
Comet interceptor: ESA selects new mission to an ancient world
The Comet Interceptor space mission led by UCL has been selected as the first €150M mission for the European Space ...
Astronomers make first detection of polarised radio waves in Gamma Ray Burst jets
The polarisation signature reveals magnetic fields in the universe's most powerful explosions to be much more patchy and tangled than ...
View of the Earth in front of the Sun
International research team discovers two new Earth-like planets near Teegarden's starCredit: University of Göttingen, Institute for Astrophysics An international research ...
NRL researchers find insights into the formation of the solar system in ancient comet dust
Credit: US Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Materials science researchers with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have found a remnant ...
NASA’s Webb Sunshield undergoes rocket fitting, more testing
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's spacecraft element, which consists of the observatory's spacecraft bus and the sunshield, ...
Meteors help Martian clouds form
How did the Red Planet get all of its clouds? CU Boulder researchers may have discovered the secret: just add ...
Hubble sets sights on an explosive galaxy
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Crenshaw and O. Fox When massive stars die at the end of their short lives, ...
NASA’s Fermi mission reveals its highest-energy gamma-ray bursts
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center For 10 years, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has scanned the sky for gamma-ray ...
Jupiter-like exoplanets found in sweet spot in most planetary systems
Few sun-like stars have these massive planets, making our sun unusualCredit: GPIES team, with animation by Paul Kalas, UC Berkeley. ...
New evidence shows crash with Antlia 2 gave the Milky Way the ripples in its outer disc
RIT scientist Sukanya Chakrabarti developing methods to hunt for the darkest dwarf galaxiesCredit: Sukanya Chakrabarti/RIT The newly-discovered dark dwarf galaxy ...
The sun may have a dual personality, simulations suggest
Researchers at CU Boulder have discovered hints that humanity's favorite star may have a dual personality, with intriguing discrepancies in ...
Rare ‘superflares’ could one day threaten Earth
Astronomers probing the edges of the Milky Way have in recent years observed some of the most brilliant pyrotechnic displays ...
Citizen scientists re-tune Hubble’s galaxy classification
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC, SSC, and STScI Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have helped to overturn almost a century of ...
Technique pulls interstellar magnetic fields within easy reach
MADISON, Wis. -- A new, more accessible and much cheaper approach to surveying the topology and strength of interstellar magnetic ...
New study dramatically narrows the search for advanced life in the universe
Toxic gases limit the types of life we could find on habitable worldsCredit: (Graphic courtesy of Christopher Reinhard/Georgia Tech) RIVERSIDE, ...
Mature galaxy mesmerizes in new Hubble view
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh This striking image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera ...
