New Camera Catches a Near Earth Object Already

22 years ago

Image credit: NASA Even though it's still in its initial commissioning trials, NASA's Quasar Equatorial Survey (or Quest) camera system…

NASA Creates an Independent Safety Centre

22 years ago

Image credit: NASA NASA announced the creation of an independent Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) at the agency's Langley Research…

Supernovae Produce Dust More Efficiently Than Previously Thought

22 years ago

Image credit: Hubble A new article published in the journal Nature helps settle a long-time mystery about some of the…

Image of a Cosmic Mirage

22 years ago

Image credit: ESO Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory have found a very rare "Einstein ring" gravitational lens, where the…

Dust Galaxies Discovered

22 years ago

Image credit: ANU An Australian astronomer has discovered 20 galaxies that contain mostly gas, rather than stars - revising the…

Galaxies and Their Black Holes Grow Together

22 years ago

Image credit: SDSS After surveying 120,000 nearby galaxies as part of the Sloan Digital Survey, a team of astronomers have…

Neutrino-Seeking Telescope Lodged in Ice

22 years ago

Image credit: UW-Madison A new telescope lodged in the ice of Antarctica has completed the first map of the high-energy…

Measuring the Earth’s Ozone Levels with Four Satellites

22 years ago

Image credit: NASA A series of NASA satellites are measuring ozone levels in the Earth's atmosphere with such precision that…

Destroyed Australian Observatory to Be Rebuilt

22 years ago

Image credit: ANU In early 2003 bushfires destroyed much of Australia's Stromlo Observatory, including five telescopes and several support buildings.…

New Galaxy Clusters Discovered

22 years ago

Image credit: ESO A team of European and Chilean astronomers have discovered several large clusters of galaxies at a distance…