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Despite the fact that the spot is so familiar to most of us, there's a lot that astronomers still don't understand about it. The new Juno observations may finally begin to unravel its mysteries.
Jul 13th, 2017
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Spiral galaxies are strongly rotating whereas the rotation velocity of ellipticals is much lower. A new study investigates the reasons of such a dichotomy revealing that it is imprinted at formation.
Jul 13th, 2017
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The comprehensive new model finally makes it possible to conclusively explain this complex gas motion.
Jul 13th, 2017
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Astronomers have used a novel technique to analyse the orbits of the so-called extreme trans-Neptunian objects and, once again, they point out that there is something perturbing them: a planet located at a distance between 300 to 400 times the Earth-Sun separation.
Jul 12th, 2017
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Researchers have created a new computational model of an electrospray thruster using ionic liquid ferrofluid - a promising technology for propelling small satellites through space.
Jul 11th, 2017
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'Synthetic observations' simulating nascent planetary systems could help explain a puzzle that has vexed astronomers for a long time.
Jul 11th, 2017
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Supernova forges billowing, tangled knots of new molecules.
Jul 10th, 2017
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Evidence of new strains of bacteria in a lake hidden under an Icelandic glacier far from the sun has revealed how life might thrive in sub-surface oceans on the icy moons around Saturn and Jupiter.
Jul 7th, 2017
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By applying a new computational analysis to a galaxy magnified by a gravitational lens, astronomers have obtained images 10 times sharper than what Hubble could achieve on its own. The results show an edge-on disk galaxy studded with brilliant patches of newly formed stars.
Jul 6th, 2017
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Does humanity exist to serve some ultimate, transcendent purpose? Conventional scientific wisdom says no. One scientists believes otherwise.
Jul 6th, 2017
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New research has found that most waves on Titan's lakes reach only about 1 centimeter high, a finding that indicates a serene environment that could be good news for future probes sent to the surface of that moon.
Jul 5th, 2017
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A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy - which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way - are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own.
Jul 5th, 2017
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Researchers have cast doubt over established explanations for certain behaviours in pulsars - highly magnetised rotating neutron stars, formed from the remains of supernovae.
Jul 3rd, 2017
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New models of massive stellar eruptions hint at an extra layer of complexity when considering whether an exoplanet may be habitable or not. Models developed for our own Sun have now been applied to cool stars favoured by exoplanet hunters.
Jul 3rd, 2017
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NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER will study the exotic astrophysical objects known as neutron stars and examine whether they could be used as deep-space navigation beacons for future generations of spacecraft.
Jun 30th, 2017
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The asteroid makes a complete circuit around the Sun every 12 years, corresponding with the orbital period of Jupiter, which shares its orbit but travels in the opposite direction.
Jun 28th, 2017
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For the first time ever, astronomers say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a discovery more than a decade in the making.
Jun 27th, 2017
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Radioactive elements in gaseous supernova remnant Cassiopeia A provide glimpses into the explosion of massive stars.
Jun 26th, 2017
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