University of Arizona researchers are using the Catalina Sky Survey's near-Earth object telescopes to locate the optical counterparts to gravitational waves triggered by massive mergersCredit: Michael Lundquist The race is…
Read More...

Credit: NOAA/NRL Tropical Storm Krosa continued to erode after it moved into the Sea of Japan and satellite data showed it as a ragged and shapeless storm on August 16, 2019. The center of Tropical Storm Krosa's circulation was…
Read More...

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson NASA's Aqua satellite provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with infrared data and cloud top temperature information for Tropical Storm Krosa as it was making landfall in…
Read More...

Jupiter's core may still be reeling from collision 4.5 billion years ago A colossal, head-on collision between Jupiter and a still-forming planet in the early solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago, could explain surprising readings…
Read More...

Credit: NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter than the Sun! That's how NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has seen our neighbor in space for the…
Read More...

Credit: NASA/Ames Research Center/W. Stenzel/D. Rutter A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to…
Read More...

New telescope network to rapidly follow up on the changing night skyCredit: SOAR / Bruno Quint Supernovae, neutron star mergers, black holes at the center of galaxies, erupting young stars -- these are all examples of objects in the night…
Read More...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Astronomers have uncovered a new way of searching for life in the cosmos. Harsh ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres. Their…
Read More...

Credit: Institute for Astronomy The existing astronomical observatories on Maunakea returned to operations this weekend, and it didn't take long for a significant result to be achieved, not only for science, but for assuring the safety…
Read More...

Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Tropical Storm Krosa is a large tropical cyclone. When NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, it captured a visible image of the massive storm. The Visible Infrared…
Read More...

Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our cosmic neighborhood was a chaotic place. Waves of comets, asteroids and even proto-planets streamed toward the inner solar system,…
Read More...

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra satellite passed over the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and captured a visible picture of the remnant clouds of deadly former Typhoon Lekima over…
Read More...

In a paper published today scientists have studied the Vela Pulsar, a neutron star in the southern sky, that is 1,000 light years away Neutron stars are not only the most dense objects in the Universe, but they rotate very fast and…
Read More...

Wind erosion has been ruled out as the primary cause of methane gas release on Mars, Newcastle University academics have shown. Methane can be produced over time through both geological and biological routes and since its first…
Read More...

Credit: Christoph Baranec The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.1 million grant to a University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) scientist to install a high-tech shape-shifting secondary mirror on the UH…
Read More...