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Researchers have found that there is an extremely soft layer deep inside the Moon and that heat is effectively generated in the layer by the gravity of the Earth.
Aug 8th, 2014
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope gets funding to begin construction.
Aug 8th, 2014
Read moreResearchers are a step closer to understanding the birth of the sun.
Aug 7th, 2014
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Astronomers have found a bridge of atomic hydrogen gas 2.6 million light years long between galaxies 500 million light years away.
Aug 7th, 2014
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What we perceive as the big bang, researchers argue, could be the three-dimensional 'mirage' of a collapsing star in a universe profoundly different than our own.
Aug 7th, 2014
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has spotted a star system that could have left behind a 'zombie star'' after an unusually weak supernova explosion.
Aug 6th, 2014
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The VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured a beautifully detailed image of the galaxy Messier 33. This nearby spiral, the second closest large galaxy to our own galaxy, is packed with bright star clusters, and clouds of gas and dust. The new picture is amongst the most detailed wide-field views of this object ever taken and shows the many glowing gas clouds in the spiral arms with particular clarity.
Aug 6th, 2014
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Astronomers have discovered an extremely cool object that could have a particularly diverse history - although it is now as cool as a planet, it may have spent much of its youth as hot as a star.
Aug 5th, 2014
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Scientists yesterday highlighted an impressive list of achievements in researching the outer heliosphere at the 40th International Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly in Moscow.
Aug 4th, 2014
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An image from the Gemini Observatory captures what is one of the brightest volcanoes ever seen in our solar system. The image, obtained on Aug. 29, reveals the magnitude of the eruption that was the 'grand finale' in a series of eruptions on the distant moon.
Aug 4th, 2014
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Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. The new observations of the small-scale extremely hot temperatures are consistent with only one current theory: something called nanoflares - a constant peppering of impulsive bursts of heating, none of which can be individually detected - provide the mysterious extra heat.
Aug 1st, 2014
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New research shows that more than four billion years ago, the surface of Earth was heavily reprocessed as a result of giant asteroid impacts. A new model based on existing lunar and terrestrial data sheds light on the role asteroid bombardments played in the geological evolution of the uppermost layers of the Hadean Earth.
Jul 31st, 2014
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Preliminary research findings from the University of Kent have identified hundreds of so far unknown jets from young stars, as well as numerous new planetary nebulae in the Galactic Plane.
Jul 31st, 2014
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So far, four European space freighters have carried supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). At 01:47 CEST on 30 July 2014, Georges Lemaitre - the fifth and last European Space Agency (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - lifted off from the spaceport at Kourou in French Guiana.
Jul 30th, 2014
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While surveying a series of binary stars, astronomers uncovered a striking pair of wildly misaligned planet-forming disks in the young binary star system HK Tau.
Jul 30th, 2014
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NASA technologists have hurdled a number of significant technological challenges in their quest to improve an already revolutionary observing technology originally created for the James Webb Space Telescope.
Jul 30th, 2014
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