Recent budget cuts suggested a bleak outlook for Lick Observatory atop Mount Hamilton in California, but a substantial gift from internet giant Google gives this historic teaching and research facility hope for a brighter future.
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and instruments in the Canary Islands have discovered a close orbiting pair of white dwarf stars destined to become a Type Ia supernova.
On 24th January 2015, three of Jupiter’s Galilean moons were in simultaneous transit across the face of their parent planet. The Hubble Space Telescope captured this rare event in amazing detail.
Analysis of near-infrared data from the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope provides evidence for a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy 300,000 light-years away predicted to exist in 2009.
A team of UK scientists and engineers announce plans to launch a small satellite called “Twinkle” within four years, an ambitious mission to provide insights into the chemistry, formation and evolution of planets orbiting other stars.
New maps from ESA’s Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought.
Now just one month away from entering into orbit around Ceres, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reveals new pictures and a movie — the sharpest images to date of the Texas-sized dwarf planet.
While mapping the central regions of the Milky Way in infrared light searching for new and hidden objects, the 4.1-metre VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile looked through a familiar object to wonders beyond.
Most galaxies age slowly as they run out of raw materials needed for growth over billions of years, but a pilot study has found some might shoot out this gas early on, causing them to redden and die prematurely.
A new spectroscopic analysis of “Black Beauty,” a 4.4 billion-year-old meteorite found in the Moroccan desert, has given scientists a better picture of the crust beneath Mars’ red dust.