MessageToEagle.com – The mysterious tilt of the moon’s orbit is due to gravitational tugs it received from giant, close-passing rocks that eventually slammed into the Earth, new research suggests.
MessageToEagle.com – The hottest white dwarf ever discovered in our Galaxy has been identified by astronomers at the Universities of Tübingen and Potsdam, Germany. With a temperature of 250,000
MessageToEagle.com – A star called KIC 8462852 has been in the news recently for unexplained and bizarre behavior. NASA’s Kepler mission had monitored the star for four years, observing
MessageToEagle.com – Mars may one day have rings similar to Saturn’s famous halo, new research suggests. In a few tens of millions of years, the Red Planet may completely
MessageToEagle.com – Long filaments of dark matter, or the so-called “hairs” exist and the solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought, according to a new study conducted
MessageToEagle.com – This week, between 11 p.m. and midnight local time, the constellation immortalizing one of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology — Perseus — will pass directly overhead.
MessageToEagle.com – One hundred years ago this month, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, one of the most important scientific achievements in the last century. A
MessageToEagle.com – Pluto’s day is 6.4 Earth days long. The images were taken by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) and the Ralph/Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera as the distance
MessageToEagle.com – Thousands of planetary nebulae are continuously observed and studied, but astronomers have long struggled to measure one of their key properties – their distance. Now, astronomers, based
MessageToEagle.com – Our Sun is a relatively quiet star that only occasionally releases solar flares or blasts of energetic particles that threaten satellites and power grids. However, in the
MessageToEagle.com – Expedition 46/47 prime crew members Timothy Kopra of NASA, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency and
MessageToEagle.com – The greatest secrets of the Universe are usually revealed when astronomers use the combined power of multiple telescopes to reveal the secrets of the Universe – and this image
MessageToEagle.com – Abraham Lincoln is best known for abolishing slavery and keeping the United States together through the Civil War, but he also helped the country become the scientific
MessageToEagle.com – University of Arizona researchers captured the first photo of a planet in the making, a planet residing in a gap in LkCa15’s disk – located in the Taurus
MessageToEagle.com – Robotic spacecraft may ride the solar wind toward interstellar space at unprecedented speeds a decade or so from now. Researchers are developing an “electric sail” (e-sail) propulsion
MessageToEagle.com – Take a look at a photo captured by MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite. The instrument captured this scene on November 5, 2015. We see cloudy
MessageToEagle.com – A horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy has been discovered by astronomers using ESO’s VISTA survey telescope. By discovering
MessageToEagle.com – Solar flares are massive explosions of energy in the Sun’s atmosphere. Experts have warned that even a single ‘monster’ solar flare could cause up to $2 trillion
MessageToEagle.com – During an unprecedented 1-year mission to the International Space Station, scientists are studying how astronauts’ bodies respond to long-duration space travel. The human body is incredibly complex.
MessageToEagle.com – Using a novel technique, astronomers have detected thousands of stellar “pulses” in the elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), located 53 million light-years from Earth in the constellation
MessageToEagle.com – New Horizons scientists present Pluto in beautiful rainbow colors. This false color image of Pluto was possible to obtain by using a technique called “principal component analysis”
MessageToEagle.com – Exoplanets give incredibly interesting insights about the conditions and weather patterns in different planetary systems. One such exoplanet is HD 189733b, which is among the most studied
First version of this article was originally published on January 16, 2012 MessageToEagle.com – Auroras on Earth are stunning to watch, but have you ever wondered what they
MessageToEagle.com – Researchers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have discovered the first gamma-ray pulsar in a galaxy other than our own. The object sets a new record for
MessageToEagle.com – A new exoplanet located only 39 light-years away has been discovered by a team of astronomers using the MEarth-South array, located at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory in
