Space/Planetary Science

Credit: NASA/SDO/Uritsky, et al. Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun's flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research…

Researchers from RIT and Green Bank Observatory shed new light on nebula formation processesCredit: STScI, Alyssa Pagan Images of two iconic planetary nebulae taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are revealing new information about how…

Credit: ETH Zürich What goes on in the sun can only be observed indirectly. Sunspots, for instance, reveal the degree of solar activity - the more sunspots are visible on the surface of the sun, the more active is our central star deep…

Credit: I. Heywood (Oxford/Rhodes/SARAO) Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa's powerful MeerKAT telescope. These galaxies are thought to be amongst the largest single objects in the Universe. The…

Scientists develop theoretical models to predict the presence of clathrate hydrates outside Earth, shedding light on the evolution of other atmospheresCredit: 2021 Hideki Tanaka, Okayama Univ. Just like on Earth, water on other…

Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser. The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought necessary to build up the immense gas envelope surrounding giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers…

Post-docs, graduate, and medical students launch virtual activities to involve community and policymakers on issues of shared importance Research!America and the Rita Allen Foundation are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2021…

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University) The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed the supernova remnant named 1E 0102.2-7219. Researchers are using Hubble's imagery of the remnant object to…

Researchers say they may have found proof of theorized axions, and possibly dark matter, around group of neutron starsCredit: D. Ducros; ESA/XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO A new study, led by a theoretical physicist at the U.S.…

Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute The sun is the only star in our system. But many of the points of light in our night sky are not as lonely. By some estimates, more than three-quarters of all stars exist as binaries -- with one…

Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA, and J. Banovetz and D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University) Astronomers are winding back the clock on the expanding remains of a nearby, exploded star. By using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, they retraced the…

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Michigan/A. Foord et al.; Optical: SDSS & NASA/STScI When three galaxies collide, what happens to the huge black holes at the centers of each? A new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory…

Astronomers and citizen scientists produce the most complete 3D map of cool brown dwarfs in the Sun's neighborhoodCredit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld, International Gemini Observatory/Jacqueline Faherty (American Museum of Natural…

Machine learning key to discovery of over 1200 gravitational lensesCredit: Images and Videos: KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey, D. Munizaga, P. Marenfeld, Hubble Space Telescope/Chandra X-ray Observatory. Music:…

Final data release from DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys issuedCredit: Images and Videos: KPNO/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Legacy Imaging Survey, P. Marenfeld, D. Munizaga, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Music: Stellardrone - Airglow.…

Credit: DESI website The Beijing-Arizona Sky Survey (BASS) team of National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and their collaborators of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project released a…

Nearly 200 researchers pitched in to gather, process, and stitch together images for half of the sky to prepare for the start of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument's observationsCredit: DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys Before DESI, the…

Dark Energy Survey releases catalog of 700 million objectsElliptical galaxies are generally characterized by their relatively smooth appearance when compared with spiral galaxies (one of which is to the left) which have more flocculent…

Extended mission expanded to explore Jovian rings, moons SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 13, 2021 -- NASA has extended the Juno mission to explore Jupiter through September 2025, expanding the science goals to include the overall Jovian system, made…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Adam Block/Mount Lemmon SkyCenter/University of Arizona On April 15, 2020, a brief burst of high-energy light swept through the solar system, triggering instruments on several NASA and…