A new study shows that meteoroid showers increase the density of the moon’s extremely thin atmosphere, which could provide clues…
E-22: The Last Hurrah at Enceladus
It’s the end of an era. On Saturday December 19, the Cassini Saturn orbiter will make its final close pass…
Celestial ‘Double-Bladed Lightsaber’ Revealed By Hubble | Video
Just in time for the release of ‘Stars Wars: The Force Awakens’, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope team has released…
The Nearest Habitable Exoplanet? “Detected Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star”
Hidden in the darkness of the universe are billions of small, dim stars scientists call red dwarfs. Though none of…
The awakened force of a star
Perfectly timed for the release of "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens", this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged…
Hubble/ESA Space Telescope Captures 1st Predicted Supernova
Many stars end their lives with a with a bang, but only a few of these stellar explosions have been…
Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star
Get larger image formats Just about anything is possible in our remarkable universe, and it often competes with the imaginings…
Euclid dark universe mission ready to take shape
Euclid, ESA’s dark universe mission, has passed its preliminary design review, providing confidence that the spacecraft and its payload can…
Mysterious sharp symmetric features detected around young double star
(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers, led by Markus Janson of Stockholm University in Sweden, has discovered mysterious sharp symmetric features…
NuSTAR finds clumpy doughnut around black hole
The most massive black holes in the universe are often encircled by thick doughnut-shaped disks of material. This doughnut material…
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