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Artist's rendering of WISE 0855 as it might appear if viewed up close in infrared light. (Illustration by Joy Pollard, Gemini Observatory/AURA)

Astronomy

Astronomers find water clouds on brown dwarf

Image credits NASA/JPL

Astronomy

NASA’s Dawn mission reveals Ceres craters that can trap water ice

Light could pass through Titan's hazy atmosphere, creating the necessary conditions for life to emerge. Image via NASA.

Alien life

Saturn’s Moon Titan might host life, researchers report

Aza/Wikimedia

Astronomy

Juno shuttle hears Jupiter’s creepy roar

Venus, alongside Earth. Similar and yet so different.

Astronomy

Strong ‘electric wind’ can strip entire planets of oceans and atmosphere

Graphical depiction of two merging black holes, a phenomenon which could be studied through gravitational waves. Image via Wikipedia.

Astronomy

Gravity wave breakthrough imminent as NASA and ESA set up unique experiment

Astronomy

‘Little Lion Galaxy’ offers clues about the Big Bang

Image via NASA.

Astronomy

Pluto is much more planet-like than we give it credit for

Artist’s impression of the view from the surface of a planet orbiting TRAPPIST-1. Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Astronomy

This small, dim star could be our best bet of finding extraterrestrial life

A false-color image of Haulani Crater shows evidence of recent landslides. NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Astronomy

NASA reveals two new spectacular photos of Ceres

A young, free-floating world sits alone in space in this illustration. The object, called WISEA J114724.10?204021.3, is thought to be an exceptionally low-mass

Astronomy

Lonely planet found in a family of stars

via NASA/Hubble.

Astronomy

Hubble snaps brilliant picture of ‘Red Rectangle’ nebula

April 13, 2016 - Updated on July 25, 2023

This enhanced color view of Enceladus shows much of the southern hemisphere and includes the south polar terrain at the bottom of the image. Scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have published a new study describing the process that drives and sustains this moon of Saturn's long-lived geysers. Photo by NASA/JPL

Alien life

Computer models confirm icy eruptions on Saturn’s Moon

Three examples of super spirals are presented here in images taken by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Credits: SDSS

Astronomy

Astronomers discover a new type of galaxy: Super Spirals

The bright spots on Ceres from different angles.

Astronomy

Bright spots on Ceres are signs of geological activity

Spectrum scan of Mercury's surface by MESSENGER

Astronomy

Taking a look into Mercury’s dark secrets

Pluto's Moon Charon A close-up of the canyons on Charon, Pluto's big moon, taken by New Horizons during its close approach to the Pluto system last July. Multiple views taken by New Horizons as it passed by Charon allow stereo measurements of topography, shown in the color-coded version of the image. The scale bar indicates relative elevation.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Astronomy

Did Pluto’s moon Charon harbor an ancient ocean?

February 23, 2016 - Updated on February 24, 2016

NASA.

Astronomy

NASA finds vast quantities of frozen water on Pluto

February 3, 2016

Alien life

Observing Alien Armageddon could be our first sign of advanced civilizations in space.

February 3, 2016

An artist's impression of the record-breakingly powerful, superluminous supernova ASASSN-15lh as it would appear from an exoplanet located about 10,000 light years away in the host galaxy of the supernova. (Credit: Beijing Planetarium / Jin Ma)

Astronomy

Astronomers detect biggest explosion we’ve seen

January 15, 2016

Image via NASA.

Astronomy

NASA establishes Planetary Defense Office to protect the Earth from asteroids

January 14, 2016

Image via NASA.

Astronomy

Jaw-dropping high-res images of Pluto show a sea of nitrogen

January 11, 2016

Age distribution of red giant stars from the galactic center to the Milky Way’s outskirts. Youngest stars are shown in blue toward the middle, while the oldest stars, colored red, hover around the outskirts. Image Credit: M. Ness & G. Stinson / MPIA

Astronomy

First ‘growth chart’ developed for the Milky Way

January 11, 2016

Artistic impression of Kepler. Image via Wikipedia.

Astronomy

The Kepler Telescope comes back with 100 new planets

January 8, 2016

Image credit: Jetsu L. / Porceddu S., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144140.s001.

Archaeology

3,200-year-old papyrus contains astrophysical information about the Algol star

December 28, 2015 - Updated on June 11, 2023

Astronomy

Potentially habitable planet found close to our solar system

December 17, 2015

JAXA.

Astronomy

Japanese orbiter sends back pictures of Venus

December 9, 2015

This image from the New Technology Telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory shows Nova Centauri 2013 in July 2015 as the brightest star in the center of the picture. This was more than eighteen months after the initial explosive outburst. This nova was the first in which evidence of lithium has been found.
Image via phys

Astronomy

Newly discovered star’s chemistry puzzles researchers

December 7, 2015

Caption: Gravitational interactions of small bodies with the Earth-Moon system shortly after its formation.
Credit: Laetitia Lalila

Astronomy

How the Moon got its tilt

November 26, 2015 - Updated on August 1, 2017

Groovy.
Image via NASA

Astronomy

New Horizons images suggest Pluto is geologically active

November 17, 2015

This diagram shows how a shifting feature, called a corona, can create a flare of X-rays around a black hole. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Astronomy

Scientists see something shooting out of a black hole for the first time

November 9, 2015

Astronomy

The ISS: in space for 15 years

November 3, 2015

The six women who will spend eight days in a moon mission simulation. Credits: Institute of Biomedical Problems

Astronomy

Science sexism at its finest: Russian astronauts asked how they will manage without make-up and men

November 2, 2015

Rosetta’s detection of molecular oxygen

Astronomy

Big Surprise: Rosetta finds primordial oxygen on a comet

October 29, 2015

This is a picture of the comet C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) on 22 Feb. 2015. Credits: Fabrice Noel

Astronomy

Scientists find alcoholic comet, that keeps spewing alcohol

October 26, 2015

ESO/L. Calçada

Astronomy

Scientists find two stars touching – and the consequences are… explosive!

October 22, 2015

An artist's impression of innumerable Earth-like planets that have yet to be born over the next trillion years in the evolving universe. Image credits: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI).

Astronomy

Many Earth-Like Planets Haven’t Formed Yet

October 21, 2015

Image: CORBIS.

Astronomy

Something is blocking light from a distant star, and one of the possibilities is an alien structure

October 15, 2015 - Updated on September 17, 2021

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera images have revealed thousands of young, lobate thrust fault scarps on the moon. Image released Sept. 15, 2015.
Credit: NASA/LRO/Arizona State University/Smithsonian Institution

Astronomy

Earth’s gravity pull is opening cracks and faults on the Moon

October 12, 2015

Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Astronomy

NASA believes those spots on Ceres are actually salt

October 7, 2015

Charon in Enhanced Color NASA's New Horizons captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Charon just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the spacecraft’s Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC); the colors are processed to best highlight the variation of surface properties across Charon. Charon’s color palette is not as diverse as Pluto’s; most striking is the reddish north (top) polar region, informally named Mordor Macula. Charon is 754 miles (1,214 kilometers) across; this image resolves details as small as 1.8 miles (2.9 kilometers).
Credits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Astronomy

Pluto’s Charon reveals colorful and violent past

October 5, 2015

This view, made using images taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft, is a color-coded topographic map of Occator crater on Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA

Astronomy

NASA continues to reveal insights about Ceres

October 1, 2015

Flowing water on Mars. Image via Digg.

Astronomy

Why NASA’s rovers can’t investigate the Martian water

September 30, 2015

Image via Thinking Sci-Fi

Alien life

Alien life might spread through the Universe “like the plague”

August 27, 2015 - Updated on August 28, 2015

This view from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft looks toward Saturn’s icy moon Dione, with giant Saturn and its rings in the background, just prior to the mission’s final close approach to the moon on 17 August 2015. At lower right is the large, multi-ringed impact basin named Evander, which is about 220 miles (350 kilometres) wide. The canyons of Padua Chasma, features that form part of Dione’s bright, wispy terrain, reach into the darkness at left. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.

Astronomy

NASA’s Cassini Shuttle Takes Spectacular Photos of Saturn’s Moon Dione

August 21, 2015

This is a perspective rendering of the Martian chloride deposit.
Credit: LASP / Brian Hynek

Astronomy

Scientists find the last vestiges of Martian surface water

August 10, 2015

tethys saturn

Astronomy

Mysterious features observed on Saturn’s moon Tethys

Blue moon of August 31, 2012, viewed from Slobozia, Romania. Image via Wikipedia.

Astronomy

First blue moon since 2012 will be visible on Friday

The sweep of NASA Kepler mission’s search for small, habitable planets in the last six years. The first planet smaller than Earth, Kepler-20e, was discovered in December 2011 orbiting a Sun-like star slightly cooler and smaller than our sun every six days. But it is scorching hot and unable to maintain an atmosphere or a liquid water ocean. Kepler-22b was announced in the same month, as the first planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, but is more than twice the size of Earth and therefore unlikely to have a solid surface. Kepler-186f was discovered in April 2014 and is the first Earth-size planet found in the habitable zone of a small, cool M dwarf about half the size and mass of our sun. Kepler-452b is the first near-Earth-Size planet in the habitable zone of a star very similar to the sun.
Credits: NASA Ames/W. Stenzel

Astronomy

NASA’s exciting announcement: They’ve discovered an Earth-like planet in the habitable zone

Image via NASA.

Astronomy

Pluto had its moment – now Charon, Pluto’s Moon is in the spotlight

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