Would you like to see a total eclipse of the Sun? If so, do any friends or relatives live near the path of next summer's eclipse? If yes again, then you might want to arrange a visit for one...
In 2016, NASA's Cassini mission will begin its final 'Grand Finale' and ESA’s superbly sensitive deep-space tracking stations will be called in to help gather crucial radio science data. Credit: European Space Agency
An ESA tracking station has acquired signals...
(Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein / Yale University)
The search for habitable, alien worlds needs to make room for a second “Goldilocks,” according to a Yale University researcher.
For decades, it has been thought that the key factor in determining whether...
This artist's conception shows the rocky exoplanet GJ 1132b, located 39 light-years from Earth. New research shows that it might possess a thin, oxygen atmosphere - but no life due to its extreme heat.Credit: CfA/Dana Berry/Skyworks Digital
The distant planet...
This graphic depicts the Asteroid Redirect Vehicle conducting a flyby of its target asteroid. During these flybys, ARM would come within 0.6 miles (1 kilometer), generating imagery with resolution of up to 0.4 of an inch (1 centimeter) per...
OSIRIS-REx will travel to near-Earth asteroid Benn on a sample return mission.Credit: NASA
NASA is preparing to launch its first mission to return a sample of an asteroid to Earth. The mission will help scientists investigate how planets formed and...
"If confirmed by further experiments, this discovery of a possible fifth force would completely change our understanding of the universe," says UCI professor of physics & astronomy Jonathan Feng, including what holds together galaxies such as this spiral one,...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the glow of new stars in these small, ancient galaxies, called Pisces A and Pisces B. The dwarf galaxies have lived in isolation for billions of years and are just now beginning to...
This simulation of the large-scale structure of the universe reveals the cosmic web of galaxies and the vast, empty regions known as voids.Credit: Image by Nico Hamaus, Universitäts-Sternwarte München, courtesy of The Ohio State University
Researchers who are looking for...
Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers are piecing together clues from a cosmic “blob”...
Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model to show how storm clouds could have shielded ancient Venus from strong sunlight and made...
