<p></p> <p>Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered young, massive, compact galaxies whose raucous star-making parties are ending early. The firestorm of star birth has blasted
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. Fragile comets, comprised of ice and dust, have been seen
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2014/14/image/a/format/large_web/" target="_blank" alt="Galaxy ESO 137-001"></a></p> <p>Our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy lives in a comparatively quiet backwater region of the universe. This is not the case for galaxies crammed together
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p> A team of European astronomers has found a previously unknown comet, detected as a tiny blob of light orbiting our Sun deep in the Solar System.</p> <p>Europe’s Teide Observatory
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA is inviting the public to help astronomers discover embryonic planetary systems hidden among data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission through a new website, DiskDetective.org.</p> <p>Disk
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data. The agreement is NASA’s first
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>Galaxies are social beasts that are mostly found in groups or clusters – large assemblies of galaxies that are permeated by even larger amounts of diffuse gas. With
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>ESA’s Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies
<p style="text-align: center;"></p> <p>From the tiniest fraction of a second after the Big Bang to the evolution of stars and galaxies over 13.8 billion years, ESA’s Planck space telescope has provided
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Deep-space missions require precise navigation, in particular when approaching bodies such as Mars, Venus or a comet. How precise?</p> <p>It’s necessary to pinpoint a spacecraft 100 million kilometres from Earth