A new NASA study modeling conditions in the ocean of Jupiter’s moon Europa suggests that the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there, even if the moon lacks volcanic hydrothermal activity.
New Horizons has observed on how Pluto’s atmosphere effects ultraviolet rays passing through it, and how it effects we observe stars beyond it.
There are about 200 billion stars in our galaxy, with 40 billion of them like our sun.
A huge unnamed dwarf planet, being categorized as 2007 OR10, has flown closer than most astronomers have realized.
In a distant part of space, astronomers have discovered the presence of Helium-3 being naturally produced.
This sequence of images taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows Comet 252P/LINEAR as it passed by Earth. The visit was one of the closest encounters between a comet and our planet.
NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date.
“For every [planet] that we see, we know that there are 10, 100, even 200 others out there in the galaxy that we didn’t see,”
An international team of astrophysicists, including Professor Phil Charles from the University of Southampton, have detected an intense wind from one of the closest known black holes to the Earth.
Glorious view of Mercury passing over the sun as NASA takes a time-lapse of the spectral.
