The same winds that blanket Mars with dust can also blow that dust away. Catastrophic dust…
Author: Keith Cowing
New Clues About How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the Universe
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than…
Telescopes In Space For Even Sharper Images Of Black Holes
Astronomers have just managed to take the first image of a black hole, and now the…
Blue Supergiant Stars Open Doors To Concert In Space
Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young....
Storm In A Cosmic Teacup
This image shows a quasar nicknamed the Teacup due to its shape. A quasar is an…
Hubble Spots Stunning Spiral Galaxy NGC 2903
Few of the universe's residents are as iconic as the spiral galaxy....
Hubble Assembles Wide View Of The Distant Universe
The wavelength range of this image stretches from ultraviolet to near-infrared light, capturing all the features…
InSight Captures Sunrise and Sunset on Mars
A camera on the spacecraft's robotic arm snapped the photos on April 24 and 25, the…
Star with Strange Chemistry Is from Out of Town
Astronomers have discovered a star in the Milky Way Galaxy with a chemical composition unlike any…
Astronomers Discover 2,000-year-old Remnant of a Nova
For the first time, a European research team involving the University of Göttingen has discovered the…