The dwarf galaxy NGC 1705 featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope lies in the southern constellation Pictor, approximately 17 million light-years from Earth. NGC 1705 is a cosmic oddball – it is small, irregularly shaped, and has recently undergone a spate of star formation... Read More
Astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths. The new findings help paint a picture of how exotic worlds like these form and evolve, and help explain a curious gap in the size... Read More
What's Up for February? Jupiter makes its exit, Venus at peak brightness, and the star-forming cloud next door.
Jupiter is the lone planet lingering in twilight skies after sunset in February. It exits the evening sky this month leaving no bright planets there until August (save for a brief... Read More
A new gallery of images combining X-ray data from Chandra with those from other telescopes is being released. The objects range from a supernova remnant within the Milky Way to a galaxy cluster millions of light years away.
How Much Dark Matter Is in the Solar System? New Study Considers How to Measure It
Lead author Tarun Kota, a student at Eastview high school. (Credit: Tanisha Kota)
NEID will be used to characterize exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
The NASA-funded ATLAS has reached a new milestone by becoming the first survey capable of searching the entire dark sky every 24 hours for near-Earth objects that could pose a future impact hazard to Earth.
Researchers and programmers have developed a prototype 3D video dashboard for data from field campaigns that will make information easier to process and more readily available.
Scientists at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley will be among the first to observe the cosmos with Webb, and they’re looking for clues about how exoplanets form, what they’re made of, and whether any could be potentially habitable.
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures one of three segments that comprise a 65-light-year wide star-forming region named the Chameleon Cloud Complex.
The subject of this image is a group of three galaxies, collectively known as NGC 7764A. They were imaged by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, using both its Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3.
An airborne volcano-observing platform was created from an unpiloted aircraft designed for scientific uses in challenging environments. Its flights to Alaska’s Makushin Volcano demonstrated such aircraft could fly beyond pilots’ sight, opening new possibilities for monitoring volcanoes and other... Read More
Caltech researchers used the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to determine that surface water left salt minerals behind as recently as 2 billion years ago.
