Jupiter's X-ray auroras pulse independently
Jupiter's intense northern and southern lights pulse independently of each other according to new research using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories.
Oct 30th, 2017
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Jupiter's intense northern and southern lights pulse independently of each other according to new research using ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra X-ray observatories.
Oct 30th, 2017
Read moreAn aerospace engineer has built a machine to make water and oxygen from the lunar regolith, powered by solar energy.
Oct 27th, 2017
Read moreTeam of professional and citizen scientists identifies tails of comets streaking past a distant star.
Oct 26th, 2017
Read moreOne of the most vexing gets at the heart of what our universe is actually made of. Cosmological observations have determined the average density of matter in our universe to very high precision. But this density turns out to be much greater than can be accounted for with ordinary atoms.
Oct 25th, 2017
Read moreCaptured using the exceptional sky-surveying abilities of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this deep view reveals the secrets of the luminous members of the Fornax Cluster, one of the richest and closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way.
Oct 25th, 2017
Read moreAn international team of astronomers recently discovered that spots on the surface of a supergiant star are driving huge spiral structures in its stellar wind.
Oct 24th, 2017
Read moreSwirling soup of matter's fundamental building blocks spins ten billion trillion times faster than the most powerful tornado, setting new record for 'vorticity'.
Oct 23rd, 2017
Read moreFor three decades, astronomers thought that only Saturn's moon Janus confined the planet's A ring -- the largest and farthest of the visible rings. But after poring over NASA's Cassini mission data, astronomers now conclude that the teamwork of seven moons keeps this ring corralled.
Oct 17th, 2017
Read moreCollision created large amounts of the heaviest elements, such as gold, platinum and uranium, pumping them into space and unlocking the mystery of how they are formed.
Oct 16th, 2017
Read moreA new study with observations from the robotic telescope MASTER-IAC at the Teide Observatory will help to clear up some unknown factors in the initial phase.
Oct 13th, 2017
Read moreNASA's Juno spacecraft has helped explain how volcanoes on the moon Io spew particles that are flung out by Jupiter's magnetic field, before rebounding back. A high-speed atmospheric encounter on the return leg creates the Red Giant's once mysterious transient auroras.
Oct 13th, 2017
Read moreAstronomers have directly measured the distance to a star-forming region on the opposite side of our Milky Way Galaxy from the Sun, using the Very Long Baseline Array.
Oct 13th, 2017
Read moreAn algorithm that helps engineers design better helicopters may help astronomers more precisely envision the formation of planets and galaxies.
Oct 12th, 2017
Read moreTen observatories put their sight on the dwarf planet.
Oct 11th, 2017
Read moreAstronomers have announced that they have discovered possibly the most luminous 'new star' ever - a nova discovered in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Oct 11th, 2017
Read moreAn international team of researchers has found evidence a supernova explosion that was first triggered by a helium detonation.
Oct 5th, 2017
Read moreSpeculation to account for KIC 8462852's dips in brightness has ranged from it having swallowed a nearby planet to an unusually large group of comets orbiting the star to an alien megastructure.
Oct 5th, 2017
Read moreFirst-time discovery of chemical compound Freon-40 in space.
Oct 4th, 2017
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