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New sharpest-ever view of Andromeda galaxy
The image has a staggering 1.5 billion pixels, so you'd need 600 HD television screens to display it. A piece of the image, and links to a zoomable version, here.
January 6, 2015
Mind-boggling Fermi Bubbles probed via quasar light
Among other discoveries, a team of astronomers found that the core of our Milky Way galaxy drives a wind at 2 million miles per hour.
January 6, 2015
Video: Human population by the billions
When did our human population reach one billion? How long to add each billion after that, to bring us to the 7+ billion humans on Earth today? What's next?
January 6, 2015
With one minute remaining, SpaceX aborts today’s launch of Falcon 9
The soonest Space X can try again to launch Falcon 9 and the Dragon spacecraft - on a mission to resupply the International Space Station - is Friday.
January 6, 2015
Tracking Fukushima radiation across the Pacific
It took just over two years for the radioactive plume from Fukushima, Japan, to travel via ocean currents and reach the shores of North America, researchers say.
January 6, 2015
Reindeer under a New Year’s aurora
As 2015 opened, a beautiful aurora and reindeer gazing on northern tundra.
January 6, 2015
Wow! Stunning new Pillars of Creation
One of the most beloved Hubble Space Telescope images is called the Pillars of Creation, first captured in 1995. Check out this new Hubble image of the pillars!
January 5, 2015
Slow spin of older stars key in the search for life
This is "gyrochronology," from Greek words gyros (rotation), chronos (time). It can help identify distant planets old enough for complex life to have evolved.
January 5, 2015
How to make an Earth
New evidence suggests that the basic ingredients for our Earth would likely go into making distant rocky exoplanets, orbiting other stars, as well.
January 5, 2015
Super-Earths may have long-lasting oceans
Planets with two to four times the mass of Earth are even better at establishing and maintaining oceans than our Earth, according to new research.
January 5, 2015
