Arctic Ice Melt Is Changing Ocean Currents
A major ocean current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent as a result of rapid sea ice melt,…
Hubble Captures Grand Spiral
This eye-catching galaxy is known as NGC 5364. Unmistakably a spiral, NGC 5364 is also something known as a grand…
Northumbria academics launch Astronaut Rehab research at the Life Science Centre’s new Space Zone
A new space exhibition that features research from Northumbria University has launched at Newcastle’s Life Science Centre. Officially launched by…
NASA Selects Four Possible Missions to Study the Secrets of the Solar System
NASA has selected four Discovery Program investigations to develop concept studies for new missions. Although they’re not official missions yet…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery
After more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our solar system, our galaxy,…
Status Update: OSIRIS-REx Osprey Flyover
On Feb. 11, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft safely executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of the backup sample collection site Osprey as…
Spitzer’s View of the Tarantula Nebula
This image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in three wavelengths of infrared light, each represented by…
Hubble Spies Bar, Baby Stars
The galaxy depicted in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a barred spiral known as NGC…
Hubble Views a Not-So-Lonely Galaxy
Galaxies may seem lonely, floating alone in the vast, inky blackness of the sparsely populated cosmos — but looks can…
Cara Delevingne and Samsung Partner to Send Selfie into Space
Samsung’s latest out-of-this world technological feat is sending Cara Delevingne on an intergalactic mission London, UK – 16th October 2019…
Jupiter’s Cloud Tops: From High to Low
This view from NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures colorful, intricate patterns in a jet stream region of Jupiter’s northern hemisphere known…
Combing Through The “X-Ray Files”
In its 20 years of operations, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has observed hundreds of thousands of X-ray sources across the…
NASA’s TESS Mission Spots Its 1st Star-shredding Black Hole
For the first time, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) watched a black hole tear apart a star in…
Hubble Glimpses Faint Galaxy
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, focuses on an object named UGC 695, which is located 30…
Finding Intermediate-Sized Black Holes
In our vast universe, the heaviest black holes grew from seeds. Nourished by the gas and dust they consume, or…