Exo-Planet Hot Flareup

From HubbleCast. An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has made an unparalleled observation, detecting significant changes in the atmosphere of a planet located beyond [...]

How a Giant Telescope Works

Watch our videos commercial free on the SpaceRip app, available in the Apple and Google Play stores. From ESOcast, explore the state-of-the-art technology behind the Very Large telescope, which has [...]

Tale of the Shepherd Planets

Until recently, the search for planets beyond our solar system was a matter of calculating the odds and laying out theories of solar system formation. Circumstantial evidence began to trickle [...]

Hubble’s Greatest Snaps

Here’s Hubble’s best year by year from HubbleCast: 1990: Saturn Among the first images to be sent back from Hubble after its launch in April 1990, this image of Saturn [...]

Narrowing the Search for Dark Matter

Scientists have further narrowed the search for a hypothetical particle that could be dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up 80 percent of all the mass in the universe. [...]