- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 21st, 2015
Millennia-Old Remains of Exploded Star Lurk Deep Inside the Milky Way
The star that left behind the Sagittarius A East supernova remnant exploded roughly 10,000 years ago, astronomers say
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 20th, 2015
Reminder: Total Solar Eclipse Will Happen Today, March 20
The eclipse will only appear as a total one to observers in the Faroe Islands and the archipelago of Svalbard
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 19th, 2015
Over One Million Stars Are Lurking Inside This Super Hot Cosmic Cloud
The cluster of young stars hidden deep inside the cloud is about one billion times more luminous than our Sun
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 18th, 2015
Mysterious Bright Spots on Dwarf Planet Ceres Might Be Ice Plumes
Images produced by NASA's Dawn spacecraft show the spots rise above the dwarf planet's surface, are brighter at dawn
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 17th, 2015
NASA Releases Awesomely Detailed Images of Mercury's Surface
The images were obtained by the MESSENGER probe when hovering just 15 kilometers (9 miles) above the surface of Mercury
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 14th, 2015
There Is Probably Water on Comet 67P/C-G, Rosetta Data Indicates
The water appears to be frozen in a massive block resting on the neck connecting the comet's two lobes
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 13th, 2015
Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon, Hides a Massive Ocean Under Its Crust
NASA scientists get their hands on the best evidence yet that an underground saltwater ocean is lurking on Ganymede
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 12th, 2015
The Sun Just Produced the First Monster X-Class Solar Flare of 2015
The solar storm occurred this past Wednesday, March 11, NASA scientists say it peaked at 12:22 p.m. EDT
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 11th, 2015
Pack of Rare Dwarf Galaxies Discovered Orbiting Our Milky Way
Of the newly documented dwarf galaxies, the closest is located at a distance of about 95,000 light-years from us
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 10th, 2015
Astronomers Release Remarkably Detailed View of Venus' Surface
The images were obtained by sending radar signals to Venus and waiting for them to bounce off the surface of the planet
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 7th, 2015
Odd Cosmic Signals Might Actually Be a Nearby Habitable Planet
Astronomers say signals previously argued to be stellar bursts are, in fact, coming from an Earth-like planet
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 6th, 2015
Eons Ago, a Mammoth Ocean Occupied Mars' Northern Hemisphere
Astronomers believe this primitive ocean was big enough to cover nearly half of the hemisphere, also quite deep
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 5th, 2015
Spoiled Planet Has Four Parent Stars Instead of Just One
The quadruple star system is located at a distance of 136 light-years from Earth in the constellation Aries
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 4th, 2015
When Younger, the Sun Might Have Kind of, Sort of Deep-Fried Earth
Scientists suspect that, in its youth, the Sun produced flares strong enough to move through our planet's atmosphere
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 2nd, 2015
Tick-Tock: On March 5, NASA's Dawn Probe Will Reach Dwarf Planet Ceres
The spacecraft left Earth in September 2007, is expected to place itself in Ceres' orbit late Thursday night
- By Laura Sinpetru
- February 28th, 2015
Life Might Be Possible on Saturn's Moon Titan, Just Not as We Know It
Scientists piece together a model of a cell membrane that could form and survive in Titan's liquid methane seas
- By Laura Sinpetru
- February 21st, 2015
Neighboring Planets Can Influence Each Other's Climate, Study Finds
In doing so, they can even encourage or pull the plug on the emergence and evolution of alien lifeforms