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Talk about some mind-blowing images!
This would allow us to gain a new understanding of extraterrestrial life.
New images may be posing more questions than they answer.
It's the rediscovery of the year.
Space exploration made easy.
Another one bites the dust.
Jupiter's emblematic feature might disappear in a decade or two.
We know these planets better than any others outside our solar system.
They've found planets in another galaxy -- if that's not jaw-dropping, I don't know what is.
Supermassive black holes slowly eject cold gas.
Giving "family dinner" a whole new meaning.
It seems like a freckle, but this freckle is larger than the Earth.
It's awesome, it's very useful, and it's open for everyone to use.
Not all planets are as lucky as Earth.
A brilliant tool to help you witness one of the most spectacular natural events.
The scientific value might be just as high.
This map shows how a dark matter bridge connects galaxies together.
Seeing the unseeable.
It's an unprecedented prediction.
NASA has just selected two missions to study the early solar system.
Tick tock.
Seeing is believing.
Awww, it has your....mass.
A Yale University researcher claims that the so-called Goldilocks planetary area only tells half of the story.
Anthropologists have shown that Mayan tablets of math and astronomy have been greatly underestimated.
Now? Not so much.
Reason number #1304 not to colonize Io.
Every two minutes, this pulsing star lights up the entire star system.
Death from the heavens.
Thirsty, anyone?
Built to boldly probe where no man has probed before.
Not much bigger than an apartment building, 2016 HO3 has been confirmed as Earth's newest satellite.
They may be more common than we thought.
Every picture you're likely to see of it shows planets and moons too close together prevents you from getting a feel of the size of our solar system. A group of friends plans to change that, however.
Scientists have completed the most precise measurement of the Universe's rate of expansion to date; but the result just isn't compatible with speed calculations from remanent Big Bang radiation. Should the former results be confirmed by independent techniques, we might very well have to rewrite the laws of cosmology as we know them.
Five new studies describe Pluto and its atmosphere, showing that Pluto is much more active and complex than previously thought, and still has more surprises to be discovered. Pluto’s surface exhibits a wide variety of landscapes, some significantly different from its largest moon Charon. Whether or not we agree on Pluto’s planet status, we all have […]
A spectacular image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) gives us a glimpse into how the Sun will look at its death.
The Sun is easily the most recognizable and important star that humanity has ever known. And yet, those who want to study it come face to face with a tiny weensy problem -- it tends to burn your retinas if you look at it.
Where are all the aliens? Why haven’t we seen or heard their signals from space? Could we really have been the only planet where life evolved?
A duo of astronomers from CalTech may have found another planet, far away in our solar system.
While the windy and overcast weather of a stormy day isn't surprising on telluric planets, it's not something most of us readily associate with stars. But it does happen -- the best evidence for this is W1906+40, a distant dwarf star recently described in a study published in the Astrophysical Journal.
A new dwarf planet, designated V774104 has been identified and now takes the crown of most distant object in our solar system, being three times farther away than Pluto. The dwarf planet is estimated to be between 500 and 1000 kilometers across. Astronomers don't yet have enough data to estimate its orbit and estimate that about an year of observations is needed to gather enough data for a precise answer.
How do you understand the natural history of rocks and water on another planet when all you have are pictures? You do the math. Scientists have discovered how to use images of pebble shapes to estimate to estimate how far water may have moved them in ancient Martian riverbeds. These estimates enhance geographic information about […]
China is currently building the world's largest radio telescope, that will be capable to detect signs of life from billions of light years away. A new drone video has been released by China Central Television Station showed the latest progress of this telescope, and it's absolutely amazing.
An international astronomy team has detected two supermassive black holes that appear to be orbiting each other in a nearby galaxy. The discovery of a likely binary black hole system suggests that supermassive black holes assemble their masses through violent unions.
Before you get overly excited, no, Pluto hasn't been once again accepted as a planet - it's still officially a dwarf planet (though in our hearts, you'll always be a planet, Pluto!). However, this emblematic picture of the solar system from my childhood is now complete, as seen in this great family portrait produced by Ben Gross, a research fellow at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Basically, we have at least the one good image of all the worlds in our solar system.
The European Space Agency has confirmed that the Rosetta mission will continue until at least September 2016, when it will most likely land on a comet called Comet 67P.
Carbon buckyball molecules rarely exist naturally on Earth. Nonetheless, that did not stop astronomers from finding an unexpected abundance of buckyballs in space. Three years ago, Dr. Olivier Berné and Professor Xander Tielens – then, both at Leiden University – suggested a way to form these carbon buckyballs by sifting the hydrogen from larger carbon-hydrogen molecules. […]
Saturn’s Moon Titan is a remarkable place; it’s the only place aside for the Earth which has liquids on its surface – albeit, the liquid isn’t water, but rather hydrocarbons: methane and ethane. Titan is too cold to have liquid water on its surface, but that doesn’t make it any less spectacular. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft […]
We live in a solar system filled with water. Not only does liquid water cover 72% of our planet Earth, we have also found ice water in asteroids and comets, on the Moon, on Mars, and even in the shadows of craters on Mercury; while Europa and other moons of Jupiter and Saturn almost certainly […]
