Hubble measurements confirmed: Universe is outpacing all expectations of its expansion rate
The universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang. This new revelation is made...
NASA’s InSight Detects First Likely Marsquake
NASA's Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely "marsquake."
The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander's Seismic...
Auroral speed bumps are more complicated than previously thought
Researchers at the University of New Hampshire Space Science Center found that “speed bumps” in space, which can slow down satellites orbiting closer to...
Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back
Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the...
Evidence on Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid
In order to explore the interior of a planet, planetary scientists usually observe the planet spins and then measure how their probe orbits it....
New way to probe primordial universe before the big bang
Most everybody is familiar with the Big Bang — the notion that an impossibly hot, dense universe exploded into the one we know today....
The universe’s first type of molecule is found at last
The first type of molecule that ever formed in the universe has been detected in space for the first time, after decades of searching....
Unrivaled View of the Southern Crab Nebula
This incredible image of the hourglass-shaped Southern Crab Nebula was taken to mark the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 29th anniversary in space. The nebula,...
Five planets revealed after 20 years of observation
The first evidence of an exoplanet was noted in 1995. A giant planet was found in a four-day orbit around the nearby star 51...
Astronomers detected a new signal for a neutron star collision
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has recently discovered a NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in a galaxy 6.6 billion light years from Earth. This bright burst...
NASA’s Cassini reveals surprises with Titan’s lakes
On its final flyby of Saturn's largest moon in 2017, NASA's Cassini spacecraft gathered radar data revealing that the small liquid lakes in Titan's...
New Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously known planets
Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data...